In my opinion, David Walsh's commentary on the social roots of Monday's tragic events at Virginia Tech is absolutely brilliant. I would only add that one should not shy from naming Cho's act "terrorism." The prevailing narrative in the United States today reserves that term for acts of violence perpetrated by Muslims. We need to resist the monopoly over the use of this term by the State sponsors of global terror in the White House, Defense Department (now the Offense Department), State Department, Homeland Security, and Pentagon. Terrorism is as terrorism does. But that is all that I would or could hope to add to Walsh's courageous display of human intelligence in the face of the darkness of this time.
peace,
Mazeppa
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