As for the military, well, obviously, theyre a bunch of Bush-scarred psychos who could snap at any moment. Newsweek called the mass murder A Symptom of a Military on the Brink: A psychiatrist who was set to deploy to Iraq at the end of the month, Hasan reportedly opened fire around the Fort Hood Readiness Center, wrote Andrew Bast. It comes at a time when the stress of combat has affected so many soldiers individually that it makes it increasingly difficult for the military as a whole to deploy for wars abroad.