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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW - November 13, 2009
The Two Faces of Maj. Hasan
by Pat Buchanan
Nidal Malik Hasan was two men.
One was the proud Army major who wore battle fatigues to
mosque; the other, the proud Arab who wore Muslim garb
in civilian life.
What brought Hasan's identities into fatal conflict was
his belief that Iraq and Afghanistan were unjust wars,
and his shock that he, a Muslim, was to be sent to serve
in one of those wars, against fellow Muslims -- a sin
against Allah meriting damnation.
Hasan was conflicted by a dual loyalty -- to the country
he had sworn to protect, and to his perceived duty as a
Muslim. When Hasan told his neighbor that morning, "I am
going to do good work for God," the call of jihad overrode
his oath of loyalty as an American soldier.
Hasan proceeded to shoot, wound or kill 44 U.S. soldiers,
and die on what he saw as the side of right, the side of
Islam, against America. "Allahu Akbar!" -- "God is great!" =
-- Hasan shouted as he began firing.
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An Internet posting by "Nidal Hasan" compared suicide
bombers to medal-of-honor winners who throw themselves on
grenades to save fellow soldiers. Hasan had decided to
become a suicider for Allah.
Though this was an act of treachery against his fellow
soldiers, of treason in wartime, of terrorism and mass
murder, Hasan must have seen himself as a hero and martyr.
Few ever commit atrocities like this. But conflicts in
identities and loyalties are common in the cauldrons of
war.
"Let none but Americans stand guard tonight," said
Washington at Valley Forge. Irish Catholics deserted the
Union army to fight beside Mexican Catholics in the San
Patricio battalion against what they thought was American
aggression. Honored today by Mexico, the San Patricios
were hanged when captured by Winfield Scott's army.
In Scott's march to Mexico City was Robert E. Lee. The
hero of Buena Vista was Col. Jefferson Davis, who had
married the daughter of his commanding officer, future
President Zachary Taylor. Davis went on to serve in the
Cabinet of Franklin Pierce and the U.S. Senate.
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Yet, in 1861, Davis and Lee would depart the service of
their country to wage war against the United States on
behalf of their new nation and the kinfolk to whom they
belonged and whom they believed had a right to be free
of the Union. Were they traitors -- or patriots?
This is not to compare the deeds of the San Patricios,
Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, all of whom declared
themselves openly and fought heroically and honorably,
with the crimes of Maj. Hasan.
But it is to raise the issue of conflicting loyalties in
the hearts of men in a nation that has declared religious,
racial and ethnic diversity to be not only a national
good but a national goal.
Whence came this idea? No previous generation believed
this.
In World War I, Wilson feared that if he went to war,
German-Americans might march on Washington. FDR was so
fearful that the blood ties of Japanese citizens and
residents would trump their loyalty to the United
States he ordered 110,000 transferred from California
to detention camps for the duration of the war.
In Arkansas last year, a Muslim opposed to the U.S. wars
shot two soldiers at a recruitment center, killing one.
In Kuwait, before the invasion of Iraq, a Muslim soldier
threw a grenade into the tent of his commanding officer,
killing two and wounding 14.
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This is not to suggest that all American Muslims or Arabs
should be citizens under suspicion. Muslims have died
fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, as German-Americans
died fighting against Germany in two world wars. But it
is to say this:
America is unraveling. No longer are we one nation and
one people. Tens of millions have come and tens of
millions are coming whose first loyalty is to the kinfolk
and country they left behind, and to the faith they carry
in their hearts. And if, in our long war against
"Islamofascism," we are seen as trampling on their nation,
faith or kinsmen, they will see us, as Hasan came to see
us, as the enemy of their sacred identity.
There is no American Melting Pot anymore. It was discarded
by our elites as an instrument of cultural genocide. Now
we celebrate America as the most multiracial, multiethnic,
multicultural country on earth, the Universal Nation of
Ben Wattenberg's warblings.
And, yet, we are surprised by ethnic espionage in our
midst, the cursing of America from mosques in our cities,
the news that Somali immigrants are going home to fight
our Somali allies, and that illegal aliens march under
Mexican flags to demand American citizenship.
Eisenhower's America was a nation of 160 million with a
Euro-Christian core and a culture all its own. We were a
people then. And when we have become, in 2050, a stew of
435 millions, of every creed, culture, color and country
of Earth, what holds us together then?
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