Posted on 11/11/2009 2:07:28 PM PST by artichokegrower
Letter to the Editor in today's San Francisco Chronicle
Nidal Malik Hasan missed a golden opportunity to truly be heard ("Worst massacre at a base in U.S.," Nov. 6).
If he opposed the Middle East wars and was being harassed, he should have spoken out instead of shooting out.
As an Army major and psychiatrist, his voice would have been very credible, and his words would have been heard around the country and the world.
Non-violent resistance would have given him an impact that violence never could. Sadly, he choose a "military solution" rather than a peaceful solution and thus became yet another soldier to go down this awful road traveled by soldiers from Vietnam to now.
Let us recall that he is far from the first, and he won't be the last.
MICHAEL WONG, San Francisco
The letter to the editor is easy to ignore because the writer is so childish in his reasoning and the people of San Francisco are so mindnumbingly predictable that it just becomes part of the furniture.
Sad for who? Sad for the soldiers and civilians who ended up in his sights or sad that the peacenicks lost an opportunity?
People still talk of the Kent State shootings. Think the same people will remember the day the antiwar movement took down dozens of people?
The widely publicized antiwar movement is not anti-war or a peace movement. Too many violent slogans in their protest signs and too much support FOR the Palestinian war against Israel.
“As an Army major and psychiatrist, his voice would have been very credible...”
Except for the fact that he is a Muslim.
Wonder if they would print a letter on Martin Luther King Day postulating on how James Earl Ray was a harassed misunderstood individual who should have acted out in a more peaceful manner. Just as disrespectful in my mind.
Whatta maroon this writer is, but typical, I guess, of the 'peace' crowd. What Hasan chose was NOT a 'military' solution. Our military folks don't jump up in a crowd of unarmed civilians and start shooting, yelling "Yea God", or "Yea America".
What Hasan did was terrorism, plain and simple, and was no less evil than a homicide bomber who straps on his pack and blows himself up in a crowded market.
As for the writer's snide remark about the "awful road traveled by soldiers from Vietnam to now", I am not aware of any large numbers of Vietnam, Gulf War I, or Iraq veterans who opened fire on crowds of unarmed civilians, because of their experiences in war. But beside that point, Hasan had never even been in combat, so he can't really use any sort of PTSD defense.
Completely lost on this liberal dunce - typical of the breed - is that the mass murdering scum was a radical Muslim who grew into a domestic terrorist. This was NOT a case of someone acting out for attention. This was jihad. Dumbass liberal big-city, bed-wetting apologist America haters will never understand such facts.
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