UPDATED – Fort Hood: The Big Fail

Mark Steyn: Shooter exposes hole in U.S. terror strategy.

While everybody else looks to either excuse Hasan as a victim of some sort of stress or another – or wonders whether Hasan carried out an act of terror or not – Mark Steyn gets to the essence of the problem.  But I’d go one better and say it’s a big hole in U.S. national security strategy.  We simply let our guard down.

Related: “Going Muslim”. (H/T: Insty)

UPDATE: ABC News reports the U.S. government knew Hasan had tried to contact Al Qaeda.

Unless Al Qaeda provides counseling services as a fringe benefit, that PTSD theory is looking thinner and thinner…

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