The Fort Hood Killer: Terrified … or Terrorist?

Большая статья из “Time” про “стрелка” из Fort Hood.

Статья на английском.

Если кому интересно, здесь — фотографии квартиры майора-психиатра, который, как говорят, зарабатывал очень неплохо.

For eight years, Americans have waged a Global War on Terrorism even as they argued about what that meant. The massacre at Fort Hood was, depending on whom you believed, yet another horrific workplace shooting by a nutcase who suddenly snapped, or it was an intimate act of war, a plot that can’t be foiled because it is hatched inside a fanatic’s head and leaves no trail until it is left in blood. In their first response, officials betrayed an eagerness to assume it was the first; the more we learn, the more we have cause to fear it was the second, a new battlefield where our old weapons don’t work very well and our values make us vulnerable: freedom, privacy, tolerance and the stubborn American certainty that people born and raised here will not reject the gifts we share.

Начало — здесь.