It has to do with how we are to view Islamic terrorism.
. . . the president persists in lumping the jihadis together with the nut cases and criminals in the other shootings. His reason couldn’t be more obvious. He cannot stand to acknowledge the Islamic basis of terrorism.
This is another case where he will do anything in his power to equalize it with other criminal or insane acts, make it banal. It cannot be the work — organized or not — of a highly evolved and specific seventh century ideology.
Even in the midst of proposing his morally narcissistic gun control regulations he cannot resist trying to transform jihadism into a simple common crime, sort of like a biker gang rumbling at a truck stop and subject, as John Kerry would have it, to local law enforcement.
It’s at best a blind spot, but that’s enough. It bespeaks his stilted imagination. He does not have a limber mind. Rather, his is parochial. Really a narrow-minded dude.
On the other hand, pay attention to this final tough analysis by the writer of this piece, Roger L. Simon:
This is not accidental. Equating Fort Hood (once risibly called “workplace violence” — imagine the pressure put on the Pentagon for that) and San Bernardino with these other mass killings is a deliberate attempt to obscure an uncomfortable reality or, as Al Gore terms it, an inconvenient truth.
In an election year, the president seeks to convince the public, and himself, I wouldn’t be surprised, that nothing exceptional went on in Ft. Hood and San Bernardino. It was just gun violence perpetrated by angry “folks.”
Everything is under control, if only we had a few more background checks. But this is a man who denies the Islamic State is Islamic. At least he’s consistent. As Big Bird would have it, “All of these things are just like each other.”
Narrow-minded with focus, a devilish one from standpoint of national security.
Blithe Spirit 