Imposing an agenda on the Maryland sniper

"Is John Allen Williams-Muhammad an Islamic warrior on a jihad against American infidels?" asks Justin Raimondo. "I don’t think so, although subsequent revelations may well prove me wrong. Instead, I tend to believe the scenario I sketched out in my recent speech to the St. Louis College Libertarians was all too dead-on accurate:

In Rome, they fed people to the lions, and staged extravaganzas of sadistic cruelty as popular entertainment: today, the same sadistic streak is the leitmotif of our culture, as violence for its own sake preoccupies the American imagination – not only on television, but in real life. Last month, within an eight week period at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, five murders were committed by Special Operations soldiers returning from Afghanistan – they killed their wives, brutally beating, strangling, and mangling them, as if possessed by some demonic force. An investigation into the 'causes’ of this phenomenon is now underway, but permit me to advance my own theory: that the violence unleashed in America’s foreign wars is rebounding back here, in our own country.

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