The military is pursuing scapegoats. This definitely a ‘top down’ problem, not a ‘bottom up’ one. They need to scour the Pentagon of all Islamicists.
I agree, the problem stems from the top, but it’s still a good start. Maybe officers will now think twice about being politically correct no matter what.
The rule was to let Muslims in the military get away with practically anything rather than be accused of being mean to Muslims. Now, it will at least be seen that there will be a downside for letting someone like Malik slip through the cracks.
isn't that the way it always is... blame the lowest rank that satisfies the need to feed the beast. The policy followed by flag officers and DOD bureaucrats is what led to the islamic (feces be unto him) jihadist murdering our troops and the PC continues by not allowing weapons on a base.
Of all the pathetic things i've heard of, even donut munching wanna-be special operator keystone cops are allowed to carry their weapons. So the security of the base depends on rent-a-cops or local PD. f'ing beautiful day in paradise. heck the local Walmart allows concealed carry but a man/woman TRAINED to operate a weapon isn't allowed to have one.
yum-yum....
Lesson learned, make super-d-duper that NO FIREARM signs are big enough so that people like this jihadist will stay away from bases with weapons. Nidal probably didn't see the sign posted on the building and should have been more prominently displayed. Maybe even in several languages.
While I do think the military wants scapegoats, I also believe that anyone who ever was a rater or senior rater of Hassan, who also knew of his problems, and who did not honestly evaluate him made a terrible error in judgement that has injured the US Army.
One doesn’t need to evaluate his religion to evaulate his professionalism, attitude, demeanor, prospects, etc.
Any rater or senior rater who can be shown to have known of Hassan’s extreme nature, and who nonetheless rated him highly, should have, at a minimum, a letter in their file zeroing out their rating scheme and stating that they are demonstrated incapable of professional evaluations of subordinates.
Is that a career killer? You bet. And with Hassan being a doc, and a major, that will nail an awful lot of colonels and a few generals, too. No way I can see, though, that this would go to the top of the military. Gen Petraeus, for example, is almost totally dependent on a man’s former commanders to give him a fair picture of any new man coming his way.
“The military is pursuing scapegoats. This definitely a ‘top down’ problem, not a ‘bottom up’ one. They need to scour the Pentagon of all Islamicists.”
Agree - the military is taking a HUGE CHANCE here, as these guys, with decent counsel, will NO PROBLEM putting together a defense that will probably include being forced to read the Koran, bend down on a flying carpet, and learn some Arabic.
Anyone who thinks that military officers, if left to themselves, would EVER ignore a threat like Hassan has a lot to learn about the military.
Bull Sh**t!
Every person is born a thinking person. If you are so wimp, cowardly, warped to a supposed ethos( Hitler defense ), then you are a human intellectual suckerfish, for money and status.
Lay down for a bit of cloth and a 2 dollar PX badge, then that is your price.
Why not start at the White House? There is at least one there. Who is it? Hint: The idiots and parasites, a/k/a Voters who live in America elected him president.
Yes! Indeed!
It rests with the **same** highest military leadership who let LTC Lakin, Major Cook, and Captain Rhodes swing slowly in the wind.
There is **NO POSSIBLE WAY** that our highest military will uphold their oaths to defend the Constitution against domestic enemies. We should plan on that now.
The antiAmerican fifth column within the State Department and US military survived the McCarthy/Cohn investigations and continues to do their damage from within unelection positions of power.
Political correctness is not about diversity or cultural exchange.
this is along the lines of Captain McVey and the Indianapolis torpedoing....even the Japanese sub commander considered McVey’s defensive maneuvers difficult to overcome...but the BRASS needed a scapegoat...
now we have a situation where the BRASS tell their underlings that they must walk on eggs around islamic members of the military and when one of them shows there true colors and kills American service men and women, it is not the BRASS’s fault it is the rank and file who are to blame....