HOUSE OVERSIGHT 024389 Rather, as we repeatedly refuse to learn, appeasement invites more abuse from an enemy. This becomes the "game of guilt;" it tends to expand to greater and greater consequences. Paradoxically, psychological defenses tend to create the very outcomes they seek to eliminate and it is no different here. It is a game we love to play but, unfortunately, the game gives us no rules for how to end it. All beha vior is instructive. That is, we teach others how to treat us. The game of guilt, along with other Control Factor tools, teaches our Enemy it is winning and to continue playing. FP: The reason Nidal Hasan was able to perpetrate his murder spree at Fort Hood is precisely because of our Control Factor. Please connect the dots for our readers. Siegel: Just as I used to look at Hitler when I was young and be amazed that no one could see what he was about, in retrospect the same applies to Hasan. It is precisely all the elements of the Control Factor that could allow this man, a Soldier of Allah, to be positioned as he was. He was blatantly voicing his Islamist views and Jihadi intent including, even, an essay recommending the "painful liquidation" of non-Muslims. Yet, in the Army of all places, the Control Factor operated to allow and even foster his work. Even after the murders, we cont inue the denial by calling it "workplace violence." He is the Civilization-Violent Jihad combo! And we continue to enable the same infiltration elsewhere. FP: Tell our readers about "The Project" and "Explanatory Memorandum." These are realities that serve as great threats to the Control Factor, right? Siegel: These are separate sets of documents that outline the Muslim Brotherhood's goals and plans underlying the Civilization Jihad. The former was discovered in Europe and extends globally. The 1991 Explanatory Memorandum emerged in 2008 from the Holy Land Foundation trial and describes the Brotherhood's work in America as a "Civilization-Jihadis