Wonkette: Allen West Explains How Crimea Made Obama Do The Fort Hood Shootings
See if you can follow the logic on this one, kids: On Fox’s Hannity Wednesday night, automated mobile grievance unit Allen West suggested that the Fort Hood shootings were the inevitable result of Barack Obama’s failure to recognize that America has international enemies. Now, by the time the program aired, it was pretty clear that Ivan Lopez wasn’t connected to any terrorist group, but why not drag terrorism into the equation anyway? “If your only tool is a hammer,” and you’re a tool yourself, etc. Hannity asked the disgraced former torturer if Fort Hood resulted from forgetting that there’s evil in this bad old world:
Let me go to the big picture about combatting evil in our time and this goes back to “man-caused disasters, overseas contingency operations,” that Major Hasan was “workplace violence.” Have we gotten too far away from 9/11 that we don’t remember the impact of that day?
We’re frankly rather surprised he didn’t shoehorn Benghazi in there, too.
West replied with some prime, grade-A bullshit about, naturally enough, the way that Obama’s “weak” response to Crimea somehow gave the green light to a disturbed person in U.S. America to grab a gun and start shooting people:
I believe that’s a part of it and I believe also we have a civilian leadership that does not want to recognize that the enemy exists. You know, you look at what is happening in the Crimea when the president says that Vladimir Putin is “operating from a position of weakness.” So if you don’t want to admit that there’s evil, if you don’t want to admit that there’s an enemy, then you don’t have the right type of security protocols in place.
So in Allen West’s analysis, Barack Obama is personally responsible for the security arrangements at domestic military bases, which are of course weak because Barack Obama didn’t send the 82nd Airborne to fight the Russians in Crimea?
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