The entire world is puzzling over the mortifying attack by U.S. Army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan on his fellow soldiers.
According to Luis Lema of Switzerland’s Le Temps, whatever was going through his head – the lessons learned will not be encouraging.
For Le Temps, Luis Lema seems to agree with Senator Joe Lieberman that the act was one of terror when he writes in part:
“Here we have an American officer of Palestinian origin who appears to have chosen – in the middle of Texas – to commit a suicide attack comparable to those occurring on the streets of Baghdad or Kabul. The enemy has not given up. Worse, it can strike from within.”
By Luis Lema
Translated By Sandrine Ageorges
November 7, 2009
Switzerland – Le Temps – Original Article (French)
All day, Americans hesitated to make a diagnosis. What could be at the root of the massacre that took place on Thursday at Fort hood, the largest military base in the country? Is this an internal disease or an attack by a foreign body? Neither explanation is entirely valid. And neither is reassuring.
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