It's not a direct shot down the interstate - it's probably a 3 hour drive one way or another. About 150 miles as the crow flies.

Culturally, Fort Hood is an afterthought to Dallas/Fort Worth media and life. It's a much bigger impact to Killeen, Temple (large regional hospital), Waco and maybe Austin. I'm not sure how significant Dallas or Waco is to those on base.

As one of the links mentions, Crawford is about 1/2 hour from both Waco and Fort Hood, maybe 2 hours from Dallas.

seems like everything in Texas is about a 3hr drive away

(11-09-2009 12:02 PM)GGniner Wrote:  seems like everything in Texas is about a 3hr drive away

Not by a long shot. My college roommate said Houston was as far for him to drive to as Los Angeles would be. The major population centers are within a 250 mile-per-side triangle, but the area where the Republic of Texas and Warren Jeffs loons were is about as close to Dallas as Memphis or Kansas City.

You can't ignore the role of radical Islam

TAREK FATAH, Ottowa Citizen Wrote:CNN's Arab commentator incorrectly reported that the major was wearing "Muslim garb" commonly worn in Jordan, and that it reflected his devoutness as a Muslim. However, to Pakistanis and Afghans watching the clip around the world, his clothing reflected something far more significant and sinister.

Maj. Hasan was wearing the "shalwar-kameez," the traditional attire worn by Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border. Had Maj. Hasan been of Pakistani or Afghan ancestry, it would have meant very little, but for an Arab-American to wear this attire was significant.
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In the Middle East, over five million Pakistanis and Afghans work and live among the local Arab population. The shalwar-kameez is common on the streets of Dubai and Jeddah, but no Arab male would ever want to be seen wearing this garb. I have lived a decade in the Arab world and not once did I see an Arab wearing the shalwar-kameez.

Having said that there is one particular group of Arabs who did embrace the garb of the Pashtuns. They were the "Afghan Arabs" who went to Afghanistan to wage jihad alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

(11-12-2009 12:09 AM)I45owl Wrote:  You can't ignore the role of radical Islam

TAREK FATAH, Ottowa Citizen Wrote:CNN's Arab commentator incorrectly reported that the major was wearing "Muslim garb" commonly worn in Jordan, and that it reflected his devoutness as a Muslim. However, to Pakistanis and Afghans watching the clip around the world, his clothing reflected something far more significant and sinister.

Maj. Hasan was wearing the "shalwar-kameez," the traditional attire worn by Pashtuns on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghan border. Had Maj. Hasan been of Pakistani or Afghan ancestry, it would have meant very little, but for an Arab-American to wear this attire was significant.
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In the Middle East, over five million Pakistanis and Afghans work and live among the local Arab population. The shalwar-kameez is common on the streets of Dubai and Jeddah, but no Arab male would ever want to be seen wearing this garb. I have lived a decade in the Arab world and not once did I see an Arab wearing the shalwar-kameez.

Having said that there is one particular group of Arabs who did embrace the garb of the Pashtuns. They were the "Afghan Arabs" who went to Afghanistan to wage jihad alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

That article is an eye opener. You are not going to see that reported in the US lame-stream media. The radicals are out there. Obama wants you to believe it is a witch hunt.