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An Army officer’s outrage over Fort Hood
Hot Air ^ | Nov. 12, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 11/12/2009 12:54:41 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

Clarity:

The Army as an institution has been neutered by decades of political correctness and the leaders in Hasan’s chain-of-command failed to act accordingly out of fear of being labeled anti-Muslim and receiving a negative evaluation report. The counter-terrorism agencies knew Hasan was communicating with Al-Qaeda and dismissed it as academic research instead of delving deeper into the probability that a terrorist had infiltrated the ranks.

Even four hours after Hasan stood on a desk yelling Allahu Akbar! and opened fire, the FBI stated that they were not investigating the attack as an act of terrorism even as there were still reports of other gunmen on the loose. Meanwhile, the Army continues to dismiss it as a “tragedy” and an “isolated incident by a lone gunman” while the media has invented the psychological condition of post-traumatic stress disorder by proxy. There is more concern for promoting the appropriate information operation campaign and maintaining the illusion of safety than there is for actually exposing the weaknesses and faults in the system that allowed this to happen. We’re even being told that damage to the Army’s efforts at diversity would be a greater tragedy than the murder of the twelve soldiers — how ironic the week of Veterans’ Day.

This has nothing to do with being anti-Islamic. After numerous tours to Iraq and working with countless cultural advisors on Ft. Bragg, I know dozens of Muslims who I respect and admire greatly. This has everything to do with force protection and security being trumped by the concepts of political correctness and diversity. This has everything to do with a hypocritical system and culture that breeds timidity and dismissiveness in the interest of career advancement.

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1 posted on 11/12/2009 12:54:41 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The shock of this event is that it appears our military cannot even protect itself.
2 posted on 11/12/2009 12:58:29 PM PST by Misterioso (The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"The counter-terrorism agencies knew Hasan was communicating with Al-Qaeda and dismissed it as academic research instead of delving deeper into the probability that a terrorist had infiltrated the ranks."

Meanwhile, the FBI and DHS has used the term, "TERRORIST," to describe these Americans:

Like I said before, I cannot wait until the democrat fools, imbeciles and other assorted idiots take over our medical system.

3 posted on 11/12/2009 1:02:15 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Thanks to PC, 14 innocent Americans died.


4 posted on 11/12/2009 1:02:47 PM PST by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: Misterioso
No.

The only group of people who are NOT protected in the Army are white males.

They are the last to be promoted, and the Everyone else is "special."

5 posted on 11/12/2009 1:04:36 PM PST by GI Joe Fan (GI Joe represents Real American Heroes, not a bunch of globalist drones.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
All this started with the Obama mania,everyone is a racist and a Muslim hater,,that is what so many are afraid of and that is the reason we are being attack in our own country People get rid of this loon in Washington before he turns this country completely over to the Muslims..What gets me is a majority of blacks are turning Muslim, they think that when the idiots take over they will be safe..Listen up black people these Muslims will have you for dinner and I don't mean eating with..Your heads will be on polls like they put the Christians heads on polls..They want you only because you are also the ones that hate anyone white because you have been taught that way from birth like they were Your mama's and the black panther idiots also men like Wright and Obama’s and Jessie Jackson etc,etc..teach you that you are slaves to the whites..when you are only slaves to idiots like Obama and the others I mentioned..Now I have said my piece it is up to you all..
6 posted on 11/12/2009 1:06:40 PM PST by PLD
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

The army didn’t count the person in the womb. Only 13 counts.


7 posted on 11/12/2009 1:06:56 PM PST by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is the 4th of July, democrats believe every day is April 15)
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To: PLD

POLL: 51% of FREEPERS PREFER HEADS ON POLES”


8 posted on 11/12/2009 1:16:37 PM PST by I Buried My Guns (Buy Lots Of Ammo Today)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The chain of command failed miserably. GEN Casey should be the first to resign.

In high profile cases such as Fort Hood and Abu Ghraib, the fault can be laid at the chain of command. Freepers who have served in the military know exactly what I'm talking about.

9 posted on 11/12/2009 1:29:17 PM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: PLD
What gets me is a majority of blacks are turning Muslim

A fellow poster on FR who claims to be black recently estimated that only about 5% of blacks are Muslim and said that he had never met any. I checked on his figures and they agreed with the information I was able to find.

10 posted on 11/12/2009 1:31:16 PM PST by wideminded
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To: wideminded
"A fellow poster on FR who claims to be black recently estimated that only about 5% of blacks are Muslim and said that he had never met any."

There's plenty of them in the nation's prisons.

11 posted on 11/12/2009 2:38:04 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: Night Hides Not

In the Navy, at sea, when there is a F-—Up on a ship the Captain is the one who gets disciplined. No ships in Washington DC I guess.


12 posted on 11/12/2009 3:02:16 PM PST by BilLies
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To: Night Hides Not

This is a failure in the chain of command. Admiral Kimmel was court martialed over the Pearl Harbor attack because he should have and could have known about the attack. Run a ship aground, lose your command etc.

What about the Army? Isn’t there some dereliction of duty or failure to perform here?


13 posted on 11/12/2009 3:34:27 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Half of the population is below average)
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To: Misterioso

Didn’t you get the memo that Diversity trumps self defense?


14 posted on 11/12/2009 6:48:32 PM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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