Were the Fort Hood shootings a terrorist act?
Terrorism is a word without a definition, it is defined by politicians and therefore the definition changes over time and by circumstance. Generally, I think of a terrorist as someone who kills and maims people, someone who desires to create terror, from the root word, terror. A terrorist group is a group of such cruel individuals and is often backed by countries and used as a proxy army so the financing and arms supplying countries can deny their responsibility, yeah right. Given that this guy planned and carried out these murders and injuries and he had tried to get involved with al Qaeda and was known as a threat by the US government for some time, yes he definitely is a terrorist.