Spencer on the Fred Thompson Show

The interview was on November 6, that is imediately after the mass murdering by Nidal Malik Hasan. It has taken another two weeks for the things calmly said here -- about Nidal Malik Hasan, and about the reasons for his not being discharged long ago, despite being an open and fanatical conducter of Da'wa, who preached against the Infidels and insisted that Muslims could not fight against other Muslims or for any Infidels, under any circumstances -- to have received greater acceptance, because of the enormous amount of evidence presented.

And today, November 19, two weeks later, what Fred Thompson described as an atmosphere of "political correctness" and Robert Spencer notes as the fear of CAIR and lawsuits, as helping to explain the Army's ignoring all the warning signs and even the warnings given explicitly by Hasan's superiors and by his classmates and by fellow psychiatrists, is seen -- by many many people -- as exactly right, as true.

In a way, it's good that this interview was put up with a delay of two weeks. It is even more convincing today, and we know when it was given.

And isn't that the test? Those who see things, not when everyone else sees them, but long before, those who correctly predict, for example, the failure of certain policies and the benefits of other policies, when they are finally, very belatedly, tried -- haven't those people earned the right to be listened to with greater attention?

In 1941 everyone in England -- even Chamberlain, even the people who had hailed Chamberlain -- finally realized that Churchill had been right all along. Then it was easy to see things aright. It was even easy to see things aright in September 1939. But in September 1938, or 1935, or 1934, it was not clear. In 1933 not even Churchill saw the Nazi threat exactly as he did just a year later. But there were those who did, and could explain things. And the same goes for Fascism in Mussolini (I have the books, I have the quotes), way back into the 1920s, and for Japanese militarism, and what it meant for Asia, and even for Pearl Harbor, all predicted by the far-seeing as long ago as 1930 -- because those who did the predicting were well-prepared.

There are lessons to be learned. Will they be?

Excuse me but, for the information of your overseas jihadwatchers, who is Fred Thompson?
Nice shirt Robert.