Fort Hood Massacre

Is not a terrorist action, the act of a terrorist? 

Apparently not, if one is to believe the leftist leaning media and initial government response. Though their response seemed harried and disjointed, they initially appeared to label this massacre as one carried out by a troubled individual who is deeply "conflicted" by his familial or political ties to the Middle East.  They have encouraged us to consider the murderers motives, perhaps to visualize some kind of moral equivalence, that the internal emotional pain that he suffered, might partly serve to temper the brutality of his actions in our subconscious. 

Yet one fact is certain, that one US soldier coldly murdered 13 American soldiers, injured numerous others with intent to kill more. Because of the large number of casualties, one might logically conclude that this was a planned terrorist assault occuring on American soil.

Must we wait for more tragedy to occur, or can we now concur that a politically correct policy of apologetic appeasement is not the correct answer to terrorist atrocity? Was this murderous butchery just a rare incident, or is it a looming, foreboding, preview of an expanding terrorism that has crossed the Atlantic and is escalating in our own country?

See this link to a related article by Daniel Pipes.