http://melissablogs.com/2009/11/10/podcast-fort-hood-and-health-care/ Information Pollination Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://melissablogs.com/2009/11/10/podcast-fort-hood-and-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-17295 eric ostling Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:57:14 +0000 http://www.melissaclouthier.com/?p=15117#comment-17295 While I agree with the opinions you express on the Fort Hood killings, I can't agree with calling this massacre a tragedy. It is an atrocity. Calling it a tragedy ignores Hasan's intentional acts on behalf of his beliefs and assists his apologists in shifting attention away from him as a perpetrator. In a tragedy, everyone is a victim. In an atrocity, there is the perpetrator an his victims. While I agree with the opinions you express on the Fort Hood killings, I can’t agree with calling this massacre a tragedy. It is an atrocity. Calling it a tragedy ignores Hasan’s intentional acts on behalf of his beliefs and assists his apologists in shifting attention away from him as a perpetrator. In a tragedy, everyone is a victim. In an atrocity, there is the perpetrator an his victims.

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