Ha Ha Ha was a genuine laughter full of appreciation. The kind of “belly laughter” that Buddha is famous for ha ha ha… a laughter at my own stupidity and a laughter triggered by a great idea (yours) which moved my intellect like a beneficial tickling.

When I think something is lacking substance or teethless as you say, I usually mock in bitterness. Laughter is a sign I really like a person’s thought.
Just so I m clear.

David, needless to say: you always incite interesting discussions, and you successfully achieve at all times the purpose of exposing to us the infinite alternatives. Else we wouldn t be here

It was almost as though they were writing the script as they went along. I believe nothing that the American military says. They are masters of deception!

We have a history in this country of false flag killings, like 9-11.

We also have a history of “lone-nut” assassinations. Or, so we’re told. But researchers usually find out that things aren’t that simple.

The question is how a man armed with two handguns, which would require reloading to fire so many bullets, managed to go into a room of trained soldiers and kill so many without any of them stopping him. Especially when he stopped to reload.

Something is fishy in this story. A militant Muslim, watched by the FBI, manages to kill a bunch of people on a frigging military base? As the country is starting to get aggravated with spending so much money to kill Muslims when people are losing jobs and houses and turn against the occupations as too expensive?

How convenient!

John, I loved your concluding sentence. Of course, America is full of ‘heroes.’

Therese, the actions of Congress re the Goldstone Report have alarming implications. Is America following Israel or is Israel imitating America?

Was Hasan deadly afraid to be deployed to Afghanistan –understandable because once the Jewish State nukes Iran, USA soldiers in Afghanistan would be overrun.

Was Hasan vengeful — also possible because of his Palestinian roots, which people had just been thoroughly demonized by the Congress of the USA derision of the Goldstone Report.

as you may (or not) know, I’m not a native English speaking – and therefore I want to stick to ‘short’ statements.
- also to minimize possibility for misunderstandings, in worst case, to offend.
but I’m glad you agree to my ‘solution’ although you thought/consider it a bit teethless – and seems to consider it ‘ha ha ha’. !

Don’t get me wrong, Im strongly against killing of every form in a world considered ‘normal’.
Unfortunately (especially since 9/11) isn’t ‘normal’. Killings happens, every day in illegal wars, Iraq (1,3mill), Afghanistan and Palestine, 4 mill. on the run of which 99.9% is muslims. This is the background on which a judge the ‘Hasan’ incident .
It is, thanks to GWB the world is divided between ‘us’ and the ‘them’ ‘ /BLACK and WHITE – a world without grey shades.etc. (if you’re not with us, you’re with the terrorists).

Finally
the word ‘HERO’ is only applicable to a world of cartoons and fictions

I’ve read those “modified” history books.. and unfortunately our kids will be brainwashed into believing war is OK. and who s the “hero”.. by these history books, by the video games, by the movies, by the Tv, by the clothes industry , music industry etc….(see… camouflage is fashion)

Dear David, lives of people get crushed in this machinery. It is a cold blooded games. and sometimes.. it is not even as easy as a two options answer. A hero would be someone who would oppose consciously something wrong by the right and intelligent means, with a definitely positive result. hassan’s act is a futile exercise of violence with no positive outcome. Escalating a wall of preexisting hate between two clearly defined fractions.. Need I say which are they? A villain is someone who.. we know what a villain is.
Does he qualify for either?
But what if there are third, four options or even more?
What about simply, a Tool?
Too far fetched?
Science fiction?

That is why I say.. using the yes/no option provided so easily for us is rooted in the historical ability of the powers who are to brainwashes masses into thinking that only that is what can only be:left/right, they/us, this/that.
That is why I challenged us not to perpetrate the same labeling.
Cause there are many shades of grey between white and black.