I agree fully with the doctor's final conclusion -- we have a volunteer army, or at least we did before all those STOP-gap measures went into effect. I know on BBC radio I've heard several times that Hasan tried to "buy" his way out, that he wanted to get out of the military very badly.
Who would want such a doctor serving frontline troops?????????
"It's kind of like the Civil War, where brothers fought each other across the Mason-Dixon line," Mr. Akgun, 28, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., who returned from Iraq without ever pulling the trigger.
"I don't want to stain my faith, I don't want to stain my fellow Muslims, and I also don't want to stain my country's flag."
Thousands of Muslims have served in the United States military a legacy that some trace to the First World War. But in the years since Sept. 11, 2001, as the United States has become mired in two wars on Muslim lands, the service of Muslim-Americans is more necessary and more complicated than ever before. <<<<
Complications Grow for Muslims Serving in U.S. Military