What happened to those men and women at Fort Hood had a horrible symbolism: Members of the best-trained, best-equipped fighting force on the planet gunned down by a guy who said a few goofy things no one took seriously. And that's the problem: America has the best troops and fiercest firepower, but no strategy for throttling the ideology that drives the enemy – in Afghanistan and in Texas.
That home front "strategy" would require a simple thing: honesty from our leaders about the threat we're facing. Unfortunately, there's a cabal in Washington and in the halls of academia that want to dance around the issue with endless soft-sofa psychobabble, in the hopes of reassigning blame on more popular targets, i.e., the wars, U.S. foreign policy, Israel, an intolerant American society, etc., etc. What will it take...?
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