That's my sense as well - that we are tip-toeing around this. Conventional wisdom was that if we got rid of Bush and brought in Obama, who had greater world support (whatever that has to do with anything) that our enemies would embrace us. That's not what I see happening at all. Reports are that his actions were highly lauded by some overseas and he is being called a hero.

I heard someone on some news show last night (I have no clue what channel or show - I was mostly asleep on the couch!) surmise that if he had been a Roman Catholic who killed people in an abortion clinic, there would be no hesitation on the part of the media to come right out and blame his rigid, militant right-winged religious upbringing for his deeds... but I'm afraid that other than a couple of reports by ABC and on Fox, what I'm hearing is a lot of, "Well, we know that he actually belongs to a religion of peace, but he was so distraught by the wars that he apparently just snapped. It's not really his fault or the fault of his religion."

I think now would be the time for some widespread loud and proud denouncing of this guy from some heavy-hitting Muslim group. I think if - as that commentator surmised - this had been a Catholic, they'd be getting Catholics on every news commentary show and grilling them. "But don't you think, Father McInernay, that there are elements of your religion that cause people to be emboldened to do this?" And yet I don't see that being done with the Ft. Hood killer situation.

Are we just that namby-pamby and afraid to come right out and tell it like it is because we'll be labeled with some non-PC label?