In noting my lack of comment on the Fort Hood tragedy [last Thursday*], a commemoration of the Berlin Wall coming down [today], as well as the upcoming Veteran's Day [this Wednesday], I did not want to just make gratuitous/obligatory commentary or cracks, but must note their passing.
The word *** "animus" tripped me up in a recent essay. Just how does this tie in? Maybe between the geek and the week, or the will and the weak.
[* my thoughts as the news broke: It seemed that the snippets of detail that are still coming out, told a story of failure of process if not un-intentional derilection of duty, in putting together the potential triggers for a disturbed personality. They include: the stress of his duties dealing with stressed soldiers, his being a psychiatrist who did want to be deployed, a recent poor performance rating, not to mention his(I don't want to say "so-called")faith**. ]
** this is not to diminish faith nor emphasize the Islamic connection, but ideology might be a better word or the irony of the word associations.
[Belated links: encyclicals, stress and cracks.]
[11-10-09: update on Fort Hood investigation. There is an interesting loopiness in the lack of connecting the dots, and that is between the talk and the action. It is also reflected in the difficult aspects that determine whether this will be a military or terrorism prosecution. It is more deeply embedded in the insanity of a defense for an offensive act, unjustified if there were not such a loopiness. This is not to justify the act, nor ridicule crazy talk. But I am connecting the act of justifying preemption with violence, over preemption with caution, to a failure to talk about justice preemptively.]
[11-11-09 update Obama at Fort Hood ]
*** 11-11-09 bold added as a hint in this paragraph
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