It’s a sad, very
frightening scenario. Something that has late heroes like George S.
Patton and Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller, leaders who were warriors,
rotating at 78 rpm in their graves.
We have a Four Star General of the United States Army more concerned
about ‘diversity’ and political correctness, than in the execution of
the world war on terror and combating possible infiltration of our
fighting forces by individuals, who may or may not have an affinity for
the pernicious evils of militant Islam. It ain’t your daddy’s Army
anymore.
They are making special exemptions to allow people into the military
who wouldn’t clear receiving barracks ten years ago. We don’t have a
military COMBAT frame of mind in the high command of the armed forces,
we have SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION on a grand scale. Political correctness
of the sort that allowed a Major Malik Nidal Hasan to not only slip
through the cracks, but simply ignore glaring warnings. Not just a
few, there were many. Where were the people who should have taken note
and taken action?
We have PC spin apologists calling it everything but what it was.
Stress syndrome! What stress? The guy was an officer in a cush job that
was essentially a sinecure when compared to most Army officer
assignments. It was a plain murder by a homicidal jihadist who planned
exactly what he was going to do.
Just because he was not directly
linked to one of the known Al Qaeda terror groups makes him no less
one of them. His cry of Allahu Akbar as he started his murderous
rampage pretty much nails that one down.
The question begs…HOW THE HELL DID THIS GUY PASS BACKGROUND CHECKS?
Unless it was because he WAS Muslim and the pressure on Army personnel
to treat these people differently. This is the price of POLITICAL
CORRECTNESS in the military, or anywhere in our society for that
matter. A practical mind would call it just plain damn stupidity.
I’ve seen some media types wringing their hands and bemoaning that
Major Hasan was supposedly ‘harassed’ by fellow soldiers…the kind of
statement that could only have been made by someone who had never been
closer to the military than a television. Harassed!? Harassed by whom?
The man was an officer. Certainly, no enlisted man would have said
anything to him, either directly or in front of another officer. They
would have instantly risked being brought up on charges. If someone had
something to say about him, it would have been in private and around
men of comparable rank. Even saying something in front of a senior
non-com would have been to risk a dressing down. Another officer? Maybe
one with a half a snoot full at the Officers Club? But such things are
ungentlemanly and are generally frowned upon. Maybe another officer in
private, calling him on his dangerously un-American views? Perhaps, but
it would have to be one of equal or higher rank. Seems that there are a
lot of people, in and out of the military, trying to make excuses for
Major Hasan’s actions. There’s a glaring question mark behind that one
also.
What about the rest of the Muslims in our military? We have had a
Sergeant roll a grenade into a room, killing two officers and wounding
fourteen others in Kuwait. He was a Muslim convert. There have been
other domestic terror plots against our military, it is to be noted
however, not connected to any service personnel.
What about the
soldiers who have to serve with the Muslim troops? How often do they
ask themselves, “Is this dude going to go off one of these days?” AND
what is the Army doing about that?
Has anyone gotten around to asking General Casey, while he’s busy
protecting the Muslim troops in the Army from any ‘backlash’, what he
is doing to protect the rest of the troops from them? Fair or not, they
are part of a group of people known to espouse and nurture a virulently
violent philosophy that worships death. It seems a little insane not to
scrutinize them as well. Political correctness be damned.
It appears that it is the only way to ensure we don’t have any more Malik Nidal Hasans.
Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis
© Skip MacLure 2009