by Aryeh Cohen [➚] · Friday, March 5th, 2010
that the immediate reaction to the Pentagon shooting was this, according to the NYT?
The gunman who on Thursday opened fire at an entrance to the Pentagon, injuring two police officers, harbored a deep-seated anger toward federal authorities and was possibly motivated by a desire for revenge against the government he suggested had staged the Sept. 11 attacks, officials said Friday.
Nobody, however, is using the T word (even though it is the second attack against a government building in two weeks).
On the other hand, within hours of the Fort Hood shooting the word was
Cone said the motive for the attack, which took place just after 1:30 p.m. CT, is unclear. While he said he could not rule out the incident as an act of terrorism, evidence does not support that theory.
Even though “evidence does not support that theory.”
It seems to me that terrorism is defined, in our fair and balanced culture, by who the actor is, rather than by the action. Non-Muslims don’t, it seems, do terrorism.
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