The Fort Hood Killer:Terrified …or Terrorist?

Большая статья из “Time” про “стрелка” из Fort Hood.

Статья на английском.

Если кому интересно,здесь —фотографии квартиры майора-психиатра,который,как говорят,зарабатывал очень неплохо.

For eight years,Americans have waged a Global War on Terrorism even as they argued about what that meant. The massacre at Fort Hood was,depending on whom you believed,yet another horrific workplace shooting by a nutcase who suddenly snapped,or it was an intimate act of war,a plot that can’t be foiled because it is hatched inside a fanatic’s head and leaves no trail until it is left in blood. In their first response,officials betrayed an eagerness to assume it was the first;the more we learn,the more we have cause to fear it was the second,a new battlefield where our old weapons don’t work very well and our values make us vulnerable:freedom,privacy,tolerance and the stubborn American certainty that people born and raised here will not reject the gifts we share.

Начало —здесь.