Quote of the Day
Under President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the policy of lies that empowered the terrorist Hasan is being purged from our government, our military and our immigration policy.
But those same lies are still told today in academia and medical systems, in city and state bureaucracies from Dearborn to New York City, and in Western European, Australian and Canadian government and military circles.
And Fort Hood teaches us that lying about the nature, the sources and the political purposes of Islamist terrorism inevitably carries a heartbreaking body count.
Reed D. Rubinstein
October 5, 2026
Fort Hood jihadist faces death — now Washington must purge its policy of lies
All falsehoods have a price. Sometimes the price to reward ratio is low. Deception to get your child to first open the present with the pet first is certainly acceptable. As is telling your terrorist kidnappers you are not a CIA agent even though you are.
Lies told by thousands or 10s of millions that affect society for years, decades, or centuries… No. Even lies with the best of intentions are better faced and dealt with.
Ft. Hood was not unique. There have been repeated attacks on military installations and personnel. None of the victims were armed themselves because of GFZs. It is completely bizarre that our military is a giant GFZ,
“It is completely bizarre that our military is a giant GFZ”
Beyond bizarre. I’ve never understood that in the slightest. Completely, utterly bonkers.
Oh, that’s easy to explain.
Being in command in the military is very much a game of “Hot Potato”, in that if anything goes wrong while you are in charge your career is effectively over. Commanders are held accountable for what their subordinates do.
If the soldiers aren’t allowed to carry then those soldiers can’t ND while on duty, pull a gun in road rage incident, ect.
And if the soldier can’t have a firearm on base at all, then there are no firearms to be brandished or used in domestic violence in the on-post housing area, ect.
Oh, the bureaucratic incentive, I understand just fine.
But the military quashes that in all kinds of other areas, or they would never drop a bomb or fire an artillery round, much less put soldiers through basic (even the weeny one we have today).
As I understand it, Bill Clinton inflicted that policy.
Much older than Clinton. Language dates to 1435 but in an American context probably dates to WW2. Hegseth has relaxed it somewhat by allowing commanders to arm soldiers on base but people in the military say it doesn’t happen except for security personnel.
In the interest of truth telling then, Islam is a dinosaur. The last large religion that doubles as a totalitarian political ideology in order to ruthlessly control its population and conquer non-Muslims. The Koran explicitly states there is the Umma (brotherhood of fellow Muslims living in the Dar Al Salam; world of peace) and the Dar Al Harb; the world of war! Everyone who is not Muslim.
Islam is a dangerous, totalitarian religio-political system that will not, CANNOT live in peace with its non-Muslim neighbors.
In an age of genetically designed bio weapons it is an unacceptable threat to the rest of humanity and should be obliterated by whatever means are necessary, including genocide, in order to preserve the non-Muslim humans