Foreign-Policy Blowback at Ft. Hood

I'm going to take a step into a highly-debatable topic by posting this article on U.S. Foreign Policy. Further, it directly relates to the events at Ft. Hood that transpired last week.

First off, I want to say that my whole heart goes out to the victims' families and everyone who is part of the Ft. Hood family. I spent some time on Saturday reading through the list of victims and the particular news site had short bios for each one of them. I shed some tears and said a prayer for the situation. The events were horrid, unimaginable, sickening, and "incomprehensible" as Pres. Obama described.

I know the Army officials as well as the President and many other leaders who are involved in the investigation are asking many questions. In general, the main question is "Why?".

This article by Jacob G. Hornberger suggests a reason. I will post the link for your reading as well as an excerpt.

Amidst all the debate over whether the Ft. Hood killer is a terrorist, murderer, enemy combatant, traitor, sleeper agent, or insane person, there is one glaring fact staring America in the face: what happened at Ft. Hood is more blowback from U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, specifically the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even at this early stage of the investigation, the evidence is virtually conclusive that the accused killer, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was motivated to kill U.S. soldiers at Ft. Hood by deep anger and rage arising from the things that the U.S. government has been doing to people in the Middle East for many years.

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And I’m going to repeat our predictions of what Americans should expect should the U.S. government continue its pro-empire, pro-interventionist foreign policy in the Middle East and Afghanistan: Americans should prepare themselves to reap the full bounty of what their government’s foreign policy is sowing. An evil seed will produce an evil tree that will bear evil fruit. As the anger and rage arising from the U.S. government’s foreign policy periodically boils over, everyone should prepare himself for more acts of terrorism, murder, treason, war, insanity or whatever other label you wish to put on the retaliatory killing, not to mention the monetary disaster that looms ahead from all of the out-of-control spending to finance this imperialist and interventionist madness.

Also, if you remember Ron Paul said similar things at the SC Presidential Debate in 2007 (around 1:30 mark).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD7dnFDdwu0