The following is an excerpt from OpinionJournal.com’s “Best of the Web” written by the editor, James Taranto.
‘Good Morning, Mr. Friday’
“Top Broward Teacher to Be Named Friday”–headline, Miami Herald, Feb. 19
News of the Tautological
“Police Still Investigating Crimes”–headline, Rockdale (Ga.) Citizen, Feb. 19
Bottom Stories of the Day
“Librarian, 60, Works Out 3 Times a Week”–headline, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 22
Mr. Bad Example
The Boston Globe has disturbing details on a semiconfidential Army report about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, defendant in the Fort Hood massacre:
In searching for explanations for why superiors did not move to revoke Hasan’s security clearances or expel him from the Army, the report portrays colleagues and superiors as possibly reluctant to lose one of the Army’s few Muslim mental health specialists.
The report concludes that because the Army had attracted only one Muslim psychiatrist in addition to Hasan since 2001,”it is possible some were afraid” of losing such diversity “and thus were willing to overlook Hasan’s deficiencies as an officer.”
“Several of his supervisors explicitly mentioned Hasan’s potential to inform our understanding of Islamic culture and how it relates to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan,” the investigators found.
The Globe does not mention the most chilling irony: that knowing what we now know about Hasan, the exponents of “diversity” will resist any effort to use the experience to inform our understanding of Islamic culture.
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