PJM Roundup: The Fort Hood Memorial, the President's Speech

Streaming video available here. An estimated 15,000 in attendance.

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Asleep On Watch (Taylor Marsh)

Still Willfully Blind (Andrew McCarthy)

Has Obama been convinced that Hasan was a terrorist? (George Stephanopoulos)

Distraught pacifist conscientious objector tormented by horrors of war, as far as you know (Iowahawk)

Sacrificing Americans (Victor Davis Hanson, National Review)

Obama at Ft Hood Memorial: No Mention of Terrorism or Jihad (Phyllis Chesler, Pajamas Media)

Who? (Commentary)

Time Magazine Successfully Notices, Identifies Elephant in the Room (Ace of Spades)

EXCLUSIVE: Radical “May Have Encouraged” Ft. Hood Gunman (WOAI San Antonio)

Michael Goldfarb tweets: Hasan’s cousins in Ramallah excuse & justify: “His actions could have been in self defence.”

Mosque Leaders Part of Fort Hood Healing Process at Memorial Service (ABC News)

Frank Gaffney on Fox News, discussing Fort Hood.

Memo to U.S. Government: Fort Hood Shooter Is A Jihadist (Weekly Standard — links to Hasan on Islam)

Rich Lowry tweets: the speech is eloquent but hollow. he can’t–for various reasons–speak of what really happened @ Ft Hood

“Staff Sergeant Amy Krueger was an athlete in high school, joined the Army shortly after 9/11, and had since returned home to speak to students about her experience. When her mother told her she couldn’t take on Osama bin Laden by herself, Amy replied: Watch me.'” (From Obama’s advance transcript).

And may we add, we feel just a bit less safe with Miss Krueger gone.

“It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this tragedy. But this much we do know — no faith justifies these murderous and craven acts; no just and loving God looks upon them with favor. And for what he has done, we know that the killer will be met with justice — in this world, and the next.” (From Obama’s advance transcript)

Allahpundit tweets: Advance transcript of Obama’s remarks at Fort Hood

“That we saw countless examples of our warrior ethos last week is a great source of pride. … They gave their lives for something they loved and believed in.” (From address by General George Casey)

“Among them, they had 19 children, and one of them had a child on the way.” (From address by General Cone)

Going all-in on the PTSD diagnosis — At Army Base, Some Violence Is Too Familiar (NY Times)

The Shrink and the Terrorist (San Francisco Chronicle)

Slideshow of Memorial (Dallas Morning News)

More photos (Los Angeles Times)

GayPatriot tweets: George W. Bush and Laura Bush Secretly Visited Fort Hood Victims… Last Friday

Steven Crowder tweets: Because of Political Correctness… Our soldiers are dead.

Chicago Mayor Daley Blames Fort Hood On America’s Love Of Guns! (Big Government)

Connecting the Dots (The Corner)

The Web Site for the Fort Hood Shooter’s Penpal Is Down (Weekly Standard)

Reframing the Ft. Hood massacre (American Thinker)

Unreal… Obama On Hasan: He May Have ‘Cracked’ From ‘Stress’ (Gateway Pundit)