I remember well these words of the late, great Richard Estrada. Richard was a board member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and a syndicated columnist for the Dallas Morning News.

Hasan’s allegiance never was to the United States; it was always to his tribe.

But he’s not alone. There are millions just like him. Many of them are in positions of great authority. For example, Sonia Sotomayor is a proud member of La Raza. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=99420 Ditto for Jeb Bush’s eldest son. Though not in a position of authority (and hopefully never!) he is certainly a high profile individual. http://www.vdare.com/misc/archive00/gp_bush.htm

God help the Republic.

However, I would be quite leery about leaving the war business up to “contractors” – because the more wars, the more profits.

[Who suggested that? A careful reading of my column—even a cursory reading—will reveal that BlackWater was mentioned in connection with how an organization treats its assets; not who should wage war in the US.]

That has been enough of a motivation for mischief since World War II (e.g. Eisenhower was right) without giving the foxes more keys to the chicken coop.

The founders envisioned a Navy to protect commerce, a miniscule Army needed only if attacked, and a militia to protect security in most cases.

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116051

Hasan’s treachery leads to conservative, Christian, non-Paulian waking up to the fact that our troops can’t make democracy work in Iraqi and Afghanistan tribal regions, and advocates bringing them home. (!)

A parallel to the fact that some animals won’t breed in captivity?

[What an instructive story! Thanks for sharing it.]

It’s called empire.

The military needs and wants the thousands of Third World nationals like Hasan. Who else is there to fight the wars of empire? The elites won’t fight. Ditto for the Neocons. Plus there has been a “birth dearth” in this country over the last generation. Steve Sailer pointed out the shortage of teens qualified for military service. http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/11/06/who-is-qualified-to-enlist-by-ethnicity/print/

So, the Pentagon’s response, like all other large, corrupt enterprises in this country, is to out source to the Third World.

“For all its faults and infractions, it is inconceivable that Blackwater Worldwide would, as a matter of policy, expose its warriors to a man like Maj. Nidal. No private security firm would subordinate the safety of its prized assets to the missions of left-liberalism.”

I was thinking much the same myself. Why not “outsource” the business of specific foreign operations to U. S. contractors who can do the job, whose companies’ livelihoods depend on repeat business? If they don’t the job to spec, we (the people) can always fire them (i.e. not renew contracts.) And this will occur without the heavy dose of “patriotism” or “God’s Will” heaped upon our soldiers.

If we have a national objective, we should define it clearly, then describe the manner in which it might be met. If we have no national objective, we should get the He** out of Dodge.

Where you able to hear what I said on the radio today, as soon as I came on I could barely hear you ? Chuck was having trouble with the phones today.

[I am not always able to guess it’s you, so while I heard you fine, I was hoping you’d introduce yourself, so I’d know it was my regular reader Roy B.]

Ilana, I wish you worked in the government so you can REALLY see how stupid our security people can be. Today’s nightmare – one of my co-workers wants to ship a SECRET report TO the research sponsor. Our Security people (think TSA only dumber) won’t send out the report unless it has been approved by the sponsor! [not sure how that stupidity will resolve itself – stay tuned].