The Ground We Surrendered

~This news is too sad. From Old Dominion University in Virginia:

The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah-- who was a Professor of Military Science and the leader of the university's ROTC program.

He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic… pic.twitter.com/79pfI4UwLG

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 12, 2026

So Colonel Shah survived the century's worthless unwon wars including "America's longest war" - Operation Enduring Freedom (how'd that endure, by the way?) - only to come home and die at the hands of one of his "fellow Americans" screaming - go on, take a wild guess; yeah, bingo! - "Allahu Akbar!"

For reaction, we go now to rock-ribbed conservative Ted Cruz:

My approach to immigration is very simple.

Legal? Good. Illegal? Bad. pic.twitter.com/eWULZqMu48

— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) February 26, 2026

Alas, very few people are really "conservative", which is why so little has been conserved - up to and including, ultimately, the continuing existence of the nation-states of the west. The killer of Brandon Shah checks all Senator Simpleton's boxes - as, indeed, the killer of those poor Southport schoolgirls checks all Nigel Farage's. Mohamed Jalloh emigrated from Sierra Leone and became a naturalised US citizen. An alumnus of Old Dominion, he subsequently joined the Virginia National Guard, so he's not only a brother-in-arms of Colonel Shah but also one of those "seventy-two Virginians" we used to hear so much about.

Unfortunately, Mr Jalloh was "compelled to leave the US military" after he was discovered to be a big fan of Anwar al-Awlaki, the late "spiritual advisor" to the Fort Hood killer, three of the 9/11 hijackers and many others - oh, and also the author of the popular book Forty-Four Ways to Support Jihad. Mr Jalloh expressed his desire to pull off his own Fort Hood-style mass murder, and shared his admiration for the 2015 Chattanooga attack, when a gunperson killed four Marines and a sailor.