Thom Hartman, a liberal commentator, puts the blame for the Ft. Hood shooting squarely on former president George W. Bush's shoulders. In this article posted on Alternet.org, he successfully argues that the Bush administration turned the war on terror into a battle between good and evil, and Osama Bin Laden, into a comic book supervillain.
Hartmann argues that just like in comic books, a great hero needs a great villain. Bush cast himself as Superman and Bin Laden was his Lex Luthor. Hartmann says that Bill Clinton had the right idea, by dealing with Al-Quaeda as a small band of criminals and targeting them with police agencies, special forces teams and cruise missiles.
Hartmann argues that Bush's large-scale wars only boosted Al-Quaeda's image in the eyes of the Muslim world and stretched the American military to it's breaking point.
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