Posted on 11/06/2009 3:33:21 AM PST by tobyhill
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan never served a tour of duty in Iraq. But the psychiatrist worked inside two places that have seen the terrible fallout from the war – first Walter Reed Army Medical Center, in the nation's capital, and lately at Fort Hood, the giant Central Texas base.
He dealt with some of the invisible wounds from the conflict. He counseled soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder, perhaps getting a preview of the horrors of war that he had yet to see.
But Hasan was, in many ways, very different from the soldiers and family members who had direct experience with the pain and suffering of war. He'd served in the Army for several years but had not been deployed overseas. Unmarried, he hadn't experienced the stress of soldiers whose family life had been interrupted by long deployments that put them in harm's way.
His religion, too, set him apart. He told relatives a few years ago that he was having second thoughts about his military career because other soldiers had harassed him because of his Muslim faith. More recently, he had expressed misgivings about being sent to Iraq or Afghanistan.
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If that were really true, he would have just killed himself. So once again as we all knew it would the media is covering something up...
It is disgusting - not surprising - to witness the spin that the tool media are putting are putting on this.
Maybe not sudden. How about the theory that he was upset about deployment because it would interfere with his (their?) plans for terror-attack on US soil?
Another gutless coward. He deserves to be executed.
If he had such dread about deploying, could he not have just resigned his commission?
Also, as a Major, and a psychiatrist at that, it’s highly unlikely that, if deployed, he would be anywhere near combat. He’d be doing the same thing he was in the US. You don’t kill your comrades out of fear of deploying with them...you kill them because they weren’t really your comrades and you wanted to murder them.
The article almost makes it sounds like his having heard the stories of soldiers with mental scars from deployment had caused him some sort of emotional trouble. PTSD doesn’t work like that...you don’t get it out of sympathy. Also, as a psychiatrist, he would be well-practiced in not taking on his patients’ emotional issues as his own.
I have to wonder...this man was a psychiatrist counseling our soldiers who may have had difficulty adjusting to some of the more grisly aspects of warfare, but was clearly squarely on the side of his patients’ enemies. I think it would be worthwhile to inspect just what were the outcomes of the soldiers placed under his care. Since the soldiers who saw him were actually his enemies, he would have no interest in helping them adjust to the realities of war, and it would be quite easy to conduct some psychological warfare on a person in a frayed mental state.
Yes, this is terrorism. Muslim terrorism. This guy made comments and his actions should have raised red-flags everywhere. The military should have removed him from duty.
The New York Post was the only MSM outlet that told it as it is. Front page headline is clear....we are dealing with the enemy within.
It's unlikely he would have ever been handed a rifle and told to lead the next house to house search. If he had been deployed his his venue would have changed not his job.
I disagree. When confronted by real men, we have seen the "fierce Muslim male" act like a scared little schoolgirl.
These people have no spine to sacrifice themselves unless they have a bunch of their friends goading them on.
When standing individually, these guys are wimps.
He could have been a mole. MSM & WSJ portray him as a victem. We have an all volunteer military. Immediate Background Investigation required. Who are his associates and where did he associate. Jordanian background is the only thread offered in WSJ to his world view. No doubt he was conflicted.
Tough Sh#t. When you incur a 7 year commitment for Med School on the Armys dime (USUHS), then 4 more years for internship and residency (WRAMC) you lose the right to bitch about that for a decade.
I'll give that a ten for originality Plausibility - not so much. He's a "true believer" doing his little part to destroy the "Great Satan"
“Yep, he was never ‘one of us.’”
True, but he thought he wanted to be “one of us” when he initially enlisted for a free education and Clinton was using the military to overthrow a democratically elected government in Yugoslavia to support illegal immigrant Albanian Muslims in Kosovo.
I’m so glad that it’s not his fault.
This morning I heard that the elite medical program he was part of constitutes a medical education that costs over one million dollars, courtesy of the US taxpayer.
No, stupid reporter. The answer to your question is in your own story.
...because of his Muslim faith.
The ‘cousin’ also said the shooter made a six figure salary.
Pleeeeeasssse..... Was he complaining all the way to the bank? Why didn’t he leave the military and go somewhere else if he was SO unhappy?
H&^%, for that kind of salary, they could call me everything in the world and harass me all they wanted ... and I’d THANK them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a jacka%$!! Am I supposed to have some sympathy for this creep? I don’t ... he did not BELONG where he was-PERIOD!!!
“This morning I heard that the elite medical program he was part of constitutes a medical education that costs over one million dollars, courtesy of the US taxpayer.”
This is a separate conversation, but as a former military spouse who has come in contact with graduates of said program, and a physician myself, “elite” is perhaps the last word I would use to describe its training. The USUHS generally attracts people for whom there is no other way into medical school.
I've often said all psychiatrists are nuts. This guy is now on my list.
And I don't think drugs had anything to do with it. He just went 'jihad'.
Put your money on him being a junkie if you like but even if your right don’t forget that he was first a Muslim, then a junkie, and now a murderer.
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