"Here
we have an American officer of Palestinian origin who appears to have chosen - in
the middle of Texas - to commit a suicide attack comparable to those occurring
on the streets of Baghdad or Kabul. The enemy has not given up. Worse, it can
strike from within."
All day, Americans hesitated to
make a diagnosis. What could be at the root of the massacre that took place on Thursday
at Fort hood, the largest military base in the country? Is this an internal
disease or an attack by a foreign body? Neither explanation is entirely valid.
And neither is reassuring.
During the Vietnam War, cases
of soldiers turning their guns on comrades were legion. But today's U.S. army
is not the same. Confronted to with repeated trauma due to war, it has put in
place an impressive network of assistants, psychologists and support structures
designed to offer support to soldiers. The fact that precisely one of these
psychologists turned his weapons on his companions not only shows that this
system is at the breaking point - it is proof of its decay.
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The other hypothesis is no
more agreeable. Here we have an American officer of Palestinian origin who
appears to have chosen - in the middle of Texas - to commit a suicide attack
comparable to those occurring on the streets of Baghdad or Kabul. The enemy has
not given up. Worse, it can strike from within.
