By Nancy Matthis | Friday, January 1st, 2010 at 7:37 am
The unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood were sitting ducks. The armed citizens of Israel are not. A very relevant article posted on the blog China Confidential makes the comparison:
Israelis Baffled by News of Defenseless US Soldiers
Many Israelis want to know: why didn’t the soldiers attacked by a U.S. Army major-turned-terrorist return fire?
When a Muslim goes, well, Muslim in Israel he is typically shot to death by someone–say, a reserve soldier–within seconds of screaming “Allah Akbar.”
In contrast with the Israeli experience, it took 10 minutes before a civilian police officer at Fort Hood was able to shoot and stop Muslim fanatic Nidal Malik Hasan.
How could that happen? How could so many people trained in the strategies and tactics of modern warfare be so defenseless?
The answer–and this may astonish many Americans–is that the victims were unarmed. U.S. soldiers are not allowed to carry guns for personal protection, even on a 340-acre base quartering more than 50,000 troops.
So it goes in brain-dead, liberal America….
Israelis, who have had to combat terrorism all their lives, are not afraid of guns. They are an armed people, ready, willing, and able to defend themselves and their country.
Unlike indoctrinated Americans, paralyzed by fear and political correctness, Israelis understand that people, not guns, kill people….
Several other websites copied this material without attribution, presenting the material as their own work. Whether done through dishonesty or simply ignorance, this is a practice that we here at American Daughter abhor.
Now this excellent post is making the rounds via viral email, and all credit to the original author is missing. For those of our readers who have not seen it, we urge you to visit the website China Confidential and read the whole piece.
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