REMEMBERING THE FORT HOOD SLAUGHTER

Mark Steyn:  Today is the tenth anniversary of an appalling act of slaughter, even among the long catalogue of such acts since September 11th. It was committed at an American military base by an "American" major, and thus is analogous to similar acts by Afghan "allies" on western troops in Nato barracks, or the recent murder of his colleagues by a Muslim policeman in Paris. But it was distinguished by the especially insane reaction of almost everyone who mattered, from the media to the army. As Mark Steyn Club member Kate Smyth noted the other day, "We'd rather die than be thought of as 'Islamophobic'." In the case of the US Army brass after Fort Hood, that's literally true.