PC sickness killed our soldiers
Posted: November 07, 20098:00 pm Eastern© 2009 WorldNetDaily
America is still mourning the murders of 13 soldiers at Fort Hood in what can only be characterized as a vicious slaughter by a jihadist terrorist, an attack incubated and nurtured by an irrational pandemic of political correctness.
I know no one else is putting it quite like this.
I know I will be flamed for introducing politics into this terrible tragedy.
But sick and twisted politics is what led to this massacre, and somebody has to say it.
How many times do we need to see man-made disasters like this occur before we recognize we are at war? This is not some game. This is not an enemy that will go away if we turn our backs and pretend it really doesn't exist. This is war – all-out war against Americans and America.
The questions are legion:
How did Nidal Malik Hasan rise to the rank of major in the U.S. Army with his background? I'm not talking about his Muslim faith. I'm talking about his troubled history – the disciplinary record of inappropriate proselytizing, the extremist Internet postings, the statements to comrades about American foreign policy, the mandatory counseling he had to receive because of his behavior. How could he ever have been placed in such a position of authority?
How is it possible that an officer who had expressed such grave misgivings about a deployment to Afghanistan or Iraq have been assigned to such a mission without careful scrutiny?
What kind of screening goes on in the military for security safety risks?
Why was this man chosen to participate in transition plans for the new administration less than a year ago by a major university – particularly on an issue involving homeland security
Why are soldiers on U.S. military bases strictly forbidden to carry firearms – weapons that could have prevented this travesty? If they are to be trusted with firearms to carry out their foreign missions, why not at home to defend themselves like other Americans? Why have military bases, of all places, been turned into virtual gun-free zones?
And how is it possible after so many incidents like this in America are the U.S. media still so obsessed with withholding information and denying terrorism as even a possible motivation?
These are actually dangerous questions to pose in our country today. I will most assuredly be attacked for even asking them. Yet, like them or not, most Americans are clear-thinking enough to know exactly what I am talking about.
I write these words as an Arab-American. I bear no hostility toward people from the Middle East. I bear no hostility to people to are Muslims. However, I do bear hostility – and, I believe, rightly so – to people who want to destroy America or radically alter its form of governance.
Have we lost our senses?
Do we not recognize threats when they are staring us straight in the face?
I pray that the deaths and suffering of the victims at Fort Hood is not in vain. I pray that our nation learns some critical lessons from this tragedy. I pray that we will once again begin using our heads when it comes to matters go grave as our national security and the personal safety of people willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
Let's get our heads out of the sand.
Let's start confronting our cunning and wily enemy with discernment.
Let's begin using common sense instead of irrational political correctness to make our national policies.
Let's look around soberly at the threats all around us with mission-oriented clear-headedness.
Let's stop playing pretend.
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My heart and prayers go out to all the victims, the victims family and friends.
From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.
The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)
Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.
The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.
I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.
This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.
Montana's comments about the massacre at Fort Hood missed the mark. These shootings were not a result of PTSD but rather,as Farah wrote, they were a consequence of PC correctness. I don't deny the valid existence of PTSD in combat soldiers, I do deny that was Major Hason's disorder. He has a documented history of troubles and his internet postings, anti-American military rhetoric, and Muslim religious affiliation clearly indicate he does not hold the ideals of America close to his heart, quite the contrary. I end by asking Farah's question, have you all lost your senses?
Montana is not looking at the facts. he is drawing from his own biases. this man was suffering only from islamic extremism, not PTSD, and his superiors should have recognized it.
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