Saturday, November 07, 2009
'This is going to get ugly,' Part II
Hub Blog monitored right-wing blogs, radio and TV yesterday and found, typically, a lot of anger, outrage, finger pointing, media bashing and macho chest beating about Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim background. But did anyone hear any specific, substantive suggestions about how to prevent such attacks in the future? Please pass them along if you hear or read of any. Otherwise, I'm going to assume my post yesterday was correct: Expect a lot of blowhard indignation from the Entertainment Right -- and no solutions.
Update -- Sample: Ralph Peters’ column. It’s all there -- finger pointing, media bashing and macho chest beating. Extra bonus: U.S. Army bashing (“unforgivable political correctness”). At least Ralph comes close to offering a solution, i.e. intervening when someone mouths radical Islamic views. But he doesn’t quite say that, probably because it would require acknowledging that these cases are isolated and need to be firmly handled as such.
Hub Blog monitored right-wing blogs, radio and TV yesterday and found, typically, a lot of anger, outrage, finger pointing, media bashing and macho chest beating about Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim background. But did anyone hear any specific, substantive suggestions about how to prevent such attacks in the future? Please pass them along if you hear or read of any. Otherwise, I'm going to assume my post yesterday was correct: Expect a lot of blowhard indignation from the Entertainment Right -- and no solutions.
Update -- Sample: Ralph Peters’ column. It’s all there -- finger pointing, media bashing and macho chest beating. Extra bonus: U.S. Army bashing (“unforgivable political correctness”). At least Ralph comes close to offering a solution, i.e. intervening when someone mouths radical Islamic views. But he doesn’t quite say that, probably because it would require acknowledging that these cases are isolated and need to be firmly handled as such.
