What links Texas-Georgia Army plots?

Nope, there is definitely nothing about a Democratic POTUS that drives redneck Republicans batshit insane.  This is just normal.  It could happen to any president.  I'm sure that crazy white militia guys will be lining up to overthrow and/or assassinate Romney if he wins.  

(The "F.E.A.R." group's ringleader worked as a lowly page at the 2008 Republican National Convention.  You've come a long way, baby!)

Seriously though, after one Army soldier who was Muslim went nuts at Fort Hood some conservatives were saying we have Muslim jihad inside the U.S. Military.  Now that at least five white soldiers in Georgia were plotting genuine treason and mass murder of American civilians, and murdered their own friends to keep it a secret, what will those same anti-Muslim conservatives say, I wonder?  

Anyhow, I doubt these conservative jihad-mongers could be in deeper denial than the Army spokesman who stated: "Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield does not have a gang or militia problem."  I wonder what does qualify as a "problem" in their book?

And what will gun control opponents say to the fact that these soldiers legally purchased $87,00 worth of semi-automatic assault rifles, other guns, and bomb-making components in preparation to execute their plot?  That it was their God-given right to accumulate all those instruments of death?  Why am I asking these stupid rhetorical questions when I know all the answers?  

Here's the underlying connection between Hassan-Fort Hood and these guys: legal, accessible and deadly firearms.  Our inability to "infringe" on the the right of these citizens -- who had no criminal record -- to buy whatever kind of guns, clips and ammo they wanted, thanks to the 2nd Amendment, is outdated and absurd.  There is no good reason for anybody to buy them.

Prosecutor: Ga. murder case uncovers terror plot

By Russ Bynum 

August 27, 2012 | Associated Press

URL:  http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SOLDIERS_CHARGED_PLOT?SITE=ORAST&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

2010 Ft. Hood suicides set record, out-kill Hasan

So it seems that PTSD has been a much more prolific and enduring killer at Ft. Hood than Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

But we can't arrest, try and execute PTSD. It's intangible, depressing and glum. It's an unspeakable wussy downer in a nation that tells us to "get over it."

Fort Hood suicides on the rise in 2010

Despite outreach, self-inflicted deaths hit record

By Gregg Zoroya

January 9, 2010 | USA Today

URL: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/09/20110109forthood-suicides0109.html#ixzz1AfURPqka

Rich: Conservative hawks' Killeen-Kabul disconnect

Rich makes the simple but brilliant point that the same U.S. conservatives who say you can't trust any Muslim, even a U.S.-born Muslim in American uniform, are the same ones totally committed -- no matter what the cost in U.S. lives or treasure -- to continuing the futile effort to win over Muslim hearts and minds in Iraq and especially Afghanistan.

See the disconnect?

(That feeling you're feeling in your head right now is called "cognitive dissonance." Don't fear it. Learn from it. Let your brain do its thing and then do what it tells you.)

The Missing Link From Killeen to Kabul

By Frank Rich

November 14, 2009 | New York Times

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As their Fort Hood rhetoric made clear, McChrystal's most vehement partisans don't trust American Muslims, let alone those of the Taliban, no matter how earnestly the general may argue that they can be won over by our troops' friendliness (or bribes). If, as the right has it, our Army cannot be trusted to recognize a Hasan in its own ranks, then how will it figure out who the "good" Muslims will be as we try to build a "stable" state (whatever "stable" means) in a country that has never had a functioning central government? If our troops can't be protected from seemingly friendly Muslim American brethren in Killeen, Tex., what are the odds of survival for the 40,000 more troops the hawks want to deploy to Kabul and sinkholes beyond?