Will the USA be a Day Late and a Dollar Short?

by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Birthplace of Independent Conservatism


Nidal Malik Hasan, Major, United States Army, Radicalized Jihadist.

It has been said the greatest dangers often lurk within. That passive refusal to see the evidence and acknowledge it's dangers can be the undoing of a people and nation.

Wall Street Journal, February 16, 2011.
In a month of momentous change, it was easy to overlook the significance of another revolutionary event. Who would have believed that in the space of a few weeks the leaders of the three major European powers would publicly denounce multiculturalism and declare, in so many words, that it was a proven disaster and a threat to society?

One after another they announced their findings—Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Great Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy. Multicultural values had not only led to segregated communities: They had, Mr. Cameron noted, imposed policies of blind toleration that had helped nurture radical Islam's terrorist cells.

There can be no underestimating the in-so-many-words aspect of these renunciations. This was multiculturalism they were talking about—the unofficial established religion of the universities, the faith whose requirements have shaped every aspect of cultural, economic and political life in Western democracies for the last 50 years. Still, they were out there—words coolly specific, their target clear.

They came at a fitting moment, just as Americans had been handed a report providing the fullest disclosures so far about the multiculturalist zeal that had driven Army and medical school superiors to smooth Nidal Malik Hasan's rocky way through training, promote him, and, despite blatant evidence of his unfitness, raise not a single concern. Maj. Hasan, U.S. Army psychiatrist, would be assigned to Fort Hood where, in November 2009, he opened fire, killing 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian employee, and wounding 32 others.

In this report, titled "A Ticking Time Bomb" and put out by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, there is a detail as dazzling in its bleak way as all the glowing misrepresentations of Dr. Hasan's skills and character, which his superiors poured into their evaluations of him. It concerns the Department of Defense's official report on the Foot Hood killings—a study whose recital of fact made no mention of Hasan's well-documented jihadist sympathies. Subsequent DoD memoranda portray the bloodbath—which began with Hasan shouting "Allahu Akbar!"—as a kind of undefined extremism, something on the order, perhaps, of work-place violence.

This avoidance of specifics was apparently contagious—or, more precisely, policy. In November 2010, each branch of the military issued a final report on the Fort Hood shooting. Not one mentioned the perpetrator's ties to radical Islam. Even today, "A Ticking Time Bomb," co-authored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) and Susan Collins (R., Maine), reminds us that DoD still hasn't specifically named the threat represented by the Fort Hood attack—a signal to the entire Defense bureaucracy that the subject is taboo.

At a time when major European Nations have started to recognize the true dangers of Radical Islam and Jihad, the leadership of these nations have finally, and rightly so, come to the conclusion multiculturalism is an underlying and powerful reason radicalism and extremist Islam has taken root in Europe. And in the process created the current untenable and very dangerous cultural cauldron.

Yet in America, the government and the leadership, as well as the main stream media seem yet unwilling to confront the very realities our European counterparts are now facing squarely head on. Failing to take the proper action as European nations are starting to do will only put our country at greater risk.

Full text if the WSJ article.

Cross posted to the Left Coast Rebel

Via: Memeorandum

Comments

  1. Muslims make up a tiny portion of the US population. They are not that serious a problem. Latin immigrants wouldn't be a problem at all if we just had sane, rational, realistic immigration policy. We are a nation of immigrants, our culture isn't all that great to begin with, and we have always had no choice to embrace multiculuralism because it is a fact of American life, not just some abstract social idea.

    JMJ

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  2. It's official. I have heard it all.

    Jersey McJones' comments have officially rendered me chronically stupid.

    i gots me nuthin left.

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  3. Yeah, Mr. McJones, but the muslims are STILL immigrating and they're averaging eight children to the Mexican's five.

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  4. As I shake my head, flabergasted at JMJ's comment.

    Difference is JMJ at one time immigrants assimilated, became part of an American culture, fought to defend America, were proud to be Americans, and helped build a fine country.

    Today, they expect Americans to assimilate with their culture.

    Just an opinion based on obervation. And it appears others share the observation on both sides of the Altantic. My guess is it will become a trend. At least across the Atlantic.

    Given your comment, and I have heard many like them from the "multiculturalist" and "American apologists", we could be in in for a significant cultural shock the likes of which I am hopeful I ain't around long enough to witness.

    Another thing, you said "our culture isn't all that great to begin with..." Okay JMJ answer for us two questions if you will,

    1) Name a better culture than the American culture.
    2) Why is there so damn many people trying to get into America and so few trying to leave it.

    Then I have a suggestion, once you have determined the answer to the questions please feel free to leave America and go reside in the culture of your choice.

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