The relation between price of oil and the slaughter that took place at Fort Hood is hardly as farfetched as it would appear. In a instructive article (http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1408/take-a-look-at-hasans-old-mosque) that was reprinted as an Op-ed in the NYPost on Saturday Nov 7, one Stephen Suleyman Schwartz Executive Director of the Center of Islamic Pluralism talks about the influences that apparently formed Major Nidal Hassan’s murderous hatred. This in striking contrast to the New York Times’ “see no evil” editorial of the same date, pontificating, “But until investigations are complete, no one can begin to imagine what could possibly have motivated the latest appalling carnage.” Really?! The Times, undeterred, continues with an article on today’s front page, “A Military Therapist’s World: Long Hours, Filled With Pain” replete with the sad song of twisted rationalizations, instructing us that this horrendous act was attributable to professional traumatic stress or as brightly cited in the Times, “Thursday’s rampage has put a spotlight on the stains of their profession and the patients they treat.” Then, in an adjoining article on the same NY Times front page, “Preliminary Fort Hood Inquiry Turns Up No Link To Terrorist Plot” the NY Times is quick to advise us “But, so far, investigators have unearthed no evidence that he was directed or steered into violence”.