This is a short remark about the shooting at Fort Hood. People have “gone crazy” in this country and shot a lot of other people, sometimes from a college tower, sometimes in a mall, sometimes in high schools and colleges. But this time Nidal Malik Hasan, dressed in traditional Muslim clothing, ordered coffee in the morning, gave away copies of the Koran, changed into Army fatigues, climbed on a desk, shouted Allahu Akbar and gunned down soldiers preparing for deployment to Afghanistan or Iraq.

This is really bad.

Vicarious post traumatic stress syndrome? I don’t think so.  Protest? Others not agreeing with politics or policies or whatever have traditionally had sit-ins, tied themselves to redwoods or lain down in front of bulldozers.

This is different; this is bad.