Posted on 11/09/2009 9:04:42 AM PST by jazusamo
Casey should be concerned if his organization was asleep at the switch and fell victim to a political correctness that clouded common sense. We should be concerned that the head of the Army now seems nervous about candidly discussing what occurred.
To be clear: it is the ultimate red herring, a straw man of gargantuan proportions, to suggest that those pointing to Hasan's motives and announced intentions ("I am going to do good work for God") are suggesting that Muslim soldiers as a group are untrustworthy or suspect. No, there is no "backlash" in the works. What there is, and what elite opinion makers should recognize before the public's fury builds, is that ignoring signs of Islamic-fundamentalist-inspired animus toward America will get people killed. It has. And it will again unless and until we stop tip-toeing around the obvious link between a murderous ideology and murder.
Maybe if there were some backlash they would police their own....
Casey denied. Thirteen soldiers died.
Yep, there needs to be plenty of backlash on military PC policy.
Very sad, the graphic is on the money.
Col. David Hackworth was correct !!Gen Casey is just another Perfumed Prince of the Pentagon
Political Correctness is a religion, the religion of the yuppies who misrule us and who are destroying America.
Gee, my first thought was to wonder if other muslim soldiers are connected to this conspiracy or if this act of murder and treason could inspire other muslim soldiers to commit similar acts.
That too....
I don’t know about the rest of you, but General casey seems like the weakest Army Chief of Staff that I can remember. He seems dwarfed by the likes of Petreaus and Odierno.
When my father retired he had 42 years in uniform. He told me that the military had been infiltrated by politicians, and that the old tradition of honor was history. The truth of this becomes more obvious every day.
Tie the Muslims to a tree and give me a bullwhip and I’ll show ‘em backlash!
There hasn’t been and won’t be any backlash against innocent muslim soldiers. They are worrying about a backlash that won’t happen.
Their concern is fraudulent. There is a real backlash that they don’t want to deal with. A muslim bigot just gunned down fifty people. In the face of real bigotry, not the fake kind, the real and deadly kind, they flinch. They turn away. They look for the “usual suspects” to blame in this because they simply don’t want to face real and present and deadly evil in the face and call it by its name.
The guy openly called for the death of Americans and American soldiers and yet they promoted him and kept him in authority over those very same soldiers. The officers who aided and abetted his career need now to answer for it.
As for the backlash against muslims they are worried about, the surest way to make it happen is to fail to weed out muslim bigots and nutjobs. Soldiers have to know they can trust the man standing next to him. Failing in their responsibility to get rid of admitted traitors is itself an attack on the trust that soldiers have to have in one another. The surest way to have a “backlash” is to let muslim bigots hide behind “diversity” and continue to wear the uniform. Get them out, and while you’re at it get rid of the officers who looked the other way when Hasan was coming up through the ranks.
Posted on Monday, November 09, 2009 9:36:02 AM by HorowitzianConservative
"As horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse."
Well said. In Hasan’s case the people he worked with knew their was a problem.
From E-1 right on up through the ranks the personnel (noncoms and officers) muslim soldiers work with will know if there’s some kind of problem and there’ll be no backlash with any that don’t have one.
Yes, it is. And the WaPo bleeding heart piece Rubin linked is nauseating.
No one seems capable of explaining why an Army officer chose to live in a dump populated by enlisted men and non-PC working class citizens, while parading around in a Muslim get-up.
Whatever the reason (the 9/11 hijackers displayed cheapness, also), it was successful in provoking exactly one provable incident: a keying of his car by a recently-returned and obviously troubled soldier.
So much for that horrible backlash we are continually warned of.
Would someone please wake me up from this Twilight Zone episode?
A society that stupidly ignores reality is doomed.
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