Dorthoy Rabinowitz, writing for the Wall Street Journal:
It can by now come as no surprise that the Fort Hood massacre yielded an instant flow of exculpatory media meditations on the stresses that must have weighed on the killer who mowed down 13 Americans and wounded 29 others. Still, the intense drive to wrap this clear case in a fog of mystery is eminently worthy of notice.
The tide of pronouncements and ruminations pointing to every cause for this event other than the one obvious to everyone in the rational world continues apace. Commentators, reporters, psychologists and, indeed, army spokesmen continue to warn portentously, "We don't yet know the motive for the shootings."
It's an odd thing (at least to an outsider like myself) that even the top brass of the military is aping the media spin on this shooting. Maybe it isn't all that surprising to those familiar with the byzantine workings of military high command. Still, it's disappointing.
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