Ft. Hood's victims: sacrificed for PC

[Twana Blevins]

New York Post

By MICHAEL A. WALSH

 

Let's start by stating the most obvious conclusion to be drawn from the re cent report by Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins concerning the Fort Hood massacre: Unless we expunge it from our national discourse, political correctness gets Americans killed.

 

On Nov. 5, 2009, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American citizen, a radicalized Muslim, a psychiatrist and, in the words of the report, "a ticking time bomb," shot up a soldier readiness center on America's largest active-duty Army base, killing 12 military personnel and one civilian, and wounding 32 others. It was a direct assault on the armed forces of the United States by a self-proclaimed "Soldier of Allah" (written on his business cards) who shouted the Muslim incantation Allahu akbar before opening fire.

 

It's hard to imagine a clearer example of the asymmetrical warfare a free and welcoming country fights against cowardly opponents who refuse to abide by the laws of war, but there it was.

 

In any other war, someone like Maj. Hasan would never have gotten close to the Army, never have been handled with kid gloves, and never been promoted.

 

What was the Army thinking? That if we could just get our enemies to like us, all this unpleasantness will soon be over?

 

America bent over backward after 9/11 to assure Muslims that we weren't at war with Islam. Our country offered the hand of friendship to people like Maj. Hasan -- ignoring his radicalism, his praise of suicide bombers, his sympathy for Osama bin Laden and his belief that his religion, as the report notes, "took precedence over the US Constitution he swore to support and defend as a US military officer . . . Hasan's statements about the primacy of religious law occurred as he was supporting a violent extremist interpretation of Islam and suggesting that this radical ideology justified opposition to US policy and could lead to fratricide in the ranks."

 

He certainly was right about that.

 

Did anybody, from the fruit-salad brass to our crack intelligence services, do anything about it? Of course not.

 

Lieberman and Collins put their fingers on the problem: "Despite Hasan's overt displays of radicalization to violent Islamist extremism, Hasan's superiors failed to discipline him, refer him to counterintelligence officials or seek to discharge him. One of the officers who reported Hasan to superiors opined that Hasan was permitted to remain in service because of 'political correctness' and ignorance of religious practices."

 

It couldn't be much clearer than that.

 

Since the Clinton administration, the military has been subjected to an unprecedented assault on its core values, its traditions and its honor. It's become a laboratory for social experiment as its desk-jockey officer corps clamber up the greasy pole of promotion -- and, just as in civilian life, getting people like Maj. Hasan promoted in the name of the dubious virtue "diversity" was one such path.

 

It's time for that to stop. If anybody should be in the business of clear-headed threat analysis, it's the US military. "Political correctness," which literally seeks to make certain speech unthinkable, should have no place in a free society.

 

On Dec. 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed a joint session of Congress. We all remember his famous opening: "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy . . ." But the words that followed were what rallied Americans:

 

"As commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense, that always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory . . . We will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make it very certain that this form of treachery shall never again endanger us."

 

The men and women of our armed forces are fully prepared to die on the battlefield, when we ask them to. What we should never do is ask them to die on the altar of political correctness.

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[Peri McMillan]

This is so true, so sad as well as extremely outrageous! Oftentimes I wonder how many more Americans have to be maimed or killed in the name of P.C. As far as I can ascertain, most of our so-called leaders have lost their minds today. What ever happened to having the integrity and the courage to do what's right for us and our country? Hard to believe but I'm afraid this P.C. crap is only going to get worse (like everything else today).

[Martha Donahue AZ]

This and the bs the military families are putting up with from Chase is well over the top.  Last year, after that massacre, when it was announced Hassan is Islamic, I had no doubt pc had reared its ugly face once again.  You're absolutely correct.....it has to STOP!!!

[Steven G. Elliott]

Class action suit against the US ARMY and the Federal Government.

[Debi C]

I still find it confusing that the US Military cannot bear arms on military installations unless they are on a security detail.  One of my email buddies from overseas asked my why someone hadn't returned fire as he had been surrounded by active duty personnel in uniform.  I had to reply it was some earlier ruling that forbade the practice.  She was surprised to say the least.

Debi C

[Edward S Davison Jr]

Hey fellow Americans, what would you expect from an Islamic President and his hired gun Eric Holder. This low life Army Maj. Nidal Malik, shot all those people and still has not been brought to trial, Many of the people had head wounds worse than Gabrielle Giffords, Not any recognition nor special jets to transport our Military Wounded....We are a SICK Political Nation. MILITARY who are shot at deserve the $172,000/year that congressmen recieve and the PUKE no backbone congressmen get $22,000/yr. Our FREE PRESS HIDES WHEN ITS TIME TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED....WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO MINORITY VIEWS...BUT are not required to listen to, Obamas Fraud and non-transparent Presidentcy, the public gets screwed the only thing GOVERNMENT wants is your tax money, and slave labor. I just found out today that Obamas mother Ann Dunham has NO Hospital records in Hawaii..which is interesting because Liar Obama says he was born in Hawaii....OBAMA HAS NO PRIDE HAS NO DECENCY...HE WANTS AMERICANS ELIMINATED

[Sandra Lee Smith]

Why would she?  He was born in Mombasa at Coast General Hospital, not HI.    But that citizenship was forfeit when he was adopted in Indonesia, where dual citizenship is forbidden by their laws, and he's never naturalized since returning to the US after moving there.  His mother was too young to confer citizenship to her foreign born son, not having lived as a citizen in the US for 5 years after the age of 14, at the time of his birth { she was 18}, so he never had US citizenship of ANY sort.  At best, he's a legal resident alien based on his marriage to Michelle, but I'm not sure of that even.  But he's neither native born nor natural born, the latter being what the Constitution requires for POTUS, ergo, we have not had a President for more than 2 years now.  Hasan was a citizen and took the same oath those of us  who have served in the military took; and he BROKE that oath, which makes him a traitor, then he attacked his fellow soldiers and killed 13 of them which makes him a murderer.  He was not insane at the time of that shooting; it was very calculated and deliberate; as were all his actions leading up to it.  But as long as Obama is in the WH pretending to be our POTUS, he won't be brought to full court martial as he should have been months ago!  Neither will he be charged as he should be, for the murders and for the treachery as well.

[Edward S Davison Jr]

Ms Smith, Perhaps a better argument is Liar Obamas father was a Passport Carrier from Kenya, and a British subject, therefore the birth certificate is of less impotrance because both of your birth parents must be natural born citizens to produce a duly qualified candidate. Obama is and never was a legitimate candidate, he has lied on 50 or more State election affidavits to be placed on 50 state ballots, outright lies as he wasa British Subject at birth, and knows the truth. He has at least 8 different social security numbers, was kicked out of the bar in Illinois for some reason along with his wife and will not let us see his records.  His passport from Indonesia to attend school, here in the United States, where did his education funds come from, his family where Goat Herders at $1/per day. Not much left for school in the US.. There are deep studies into his Lies about attending Columbia University no one knows of him nor are their any Professors that had him in a Class. If you can please respond and tell me how he became President without committing FRAUD? Our Congressmen are cowards they will not stand up and be counted but slide around the truth like snakes in a pit. Washigton Cowards NOT EVEN ANINQUIRY FOR THE TRUTH SEEKERS...THE HOUSE SPEAKER IS SO FAR BEHIND TIMES HE DOSEN'T EVEN KNOW THERE IS NO BIRTH CERTIFICATE IN HAWAII, WILL SOMEBODY TELL BOHNIER THAT GOV ARCROMBIE DID NOT FIND THE LONGFORM BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND NO HAWAIIAN HOSPITAL HAS AN ADMISSION RECORD OF ANNE DUNHAM EVER...BORN IN A DUMPSTER? 

 

[Rhonda L. Blair]

Obama took a lot of time to make a speech and appear at the funerals of those killed by the same madman who shot Representative Giffords. Obama went out of his way, along with the main stream media, to chastise conservatives for using "vitriol" in their public discourse. On the other hand, he never said a word in remembrance on the anniversary of the murders of the Fort Hood soldiers. Our warrior heroes are being spit on again rhetorically.This must stop.

[Edward S Davison Jr]

Ms Blair, Obama was Grand Standing in Tucson, he had a political rally at the expense of the dead, he is a muslim  he played to the college kids in the back, that were given Obama tee Shirts..he used the dead as tools to pass on his message he is a satan, has he done anything to speed up the trial for the lousy low life pig that butchered our beloved men, at Fort Hood? has he shown any interest? He has screwed up everything he has touched,ie Health Care, the Federal Debt the Liar Obama is a loser, He is a cheat he lied to get to the Presidentcy his father was a British Citizen and does not meet the standards to Qualify for president. He put a Torturer in charge of Egypt...after all his BS about the prisoners at Cuba, Obama is a Bag of wind...he dosent know what he is doing from one minute to another, all he really accomplishes is putting the US indebt and trying to kill us asap. He still has to explain his 7 social security numbers.

[Martha Donahue AZ]

Ft. Hood.

[Edward S Davison Jr]

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TWO IGNORANT COMMUNISTS..HATE THE UNITED STATES THEY HAVE THE EDUCATION BUT HATE AND WANT TO DESTROY OUR SYSTEM> WE WILL DESTROY THEIR IGNORANCE..CAN YOU IMAGINE TWO HIGHLY EDUCATED OR PENCILED IN STUDENTS DO NOT KNOW HOW TO RESPECT OUR FLAG. THEY MUST BE FROM KENYA OR INDONESIA OR SOMETHING, Cheated their way into the presidentcy, where are the documents who saw the Documents..Is their a Safety Box Does the Government have copies?

[Edward S Davison Jr]

Monday on Fox news we learned that the staffers of Congress family members are "exempt" from having to pay back student loans. This will get national attention if other news networks will broadcast it. When you add this to the below, just where will all of it stop?