An American Boy

The Chattanooga murderer was as American as falafel. Andrea Mitchell tried to conjure the idea that the killer (who I will never glorify by mentioning his name) was a gun-loving small-town Southerner. Not many rednecks had their Palestinian families banished from Kuwait after Hussein's Iraqi forces were evicted by Bush the Elder. Not many Bocephus fans ever had their Dad on the terrorist watch list. Very few Tennesseans visit their uncle in Jordan to be immersed in tales of Palestinian victim-hood and glorious jihad. Not many Skynyrd or CDB listeners spice their days with trips to the local mosque. You know there are hundreds of thousands of young country boys with access to guns and the knowledge to use them who would never dream of shooting up American military installations.