Posted on 08/09/2013 10:52:32 PM PDT by neverdem
On December 7, 1941, the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked. Three years, eight months, and eight days later, the Japanese surrendered. These days, America’s military moves at a more leisurely pace. On November 5, 2009, another U.S. base, Fort Hood, was attacked — by one man standing on a table, screaming “Allahu akbar!” and opening fire. Three years, nine months, and one day later, his court-martial finally got under way.
The intervening third-of-a-decade-and-more has apparently been taken up by such vital legal questions as the fullness of beard Major Hasan is permitted to sport in court. This is not a joke: See “Judge Ousted in Fort Hood Shooting Case amid Beard Debacle” (CBS News). Army regulations require soldiers to be clean-shaven. The judge, Colonel Gregory Gross, ruled Hasan’s beard in contempt, fined him $1,000, and said he would be forcibly shaved if he showed up that hirsute next time. At which point Hasan went to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, which ruled that Colonel Gross’s pogonophobia raised questions about his impartiality, and removed him. He’s the first judge in the history of American jurisprudence to be kicked off a trial because of a “beard debacle.” The new judge, Colonel Tara Osborn, agreed that Hasan’s beard was a violation of regulations, but “said she won’t hold it against him.”
The U.S. Army seems disinclined to hold anything against him, especially the 13 corpses plus an unborn baby. Major Hasan fired his lawyers, presumably because they were trying to get him off — on the grounds that he’d had a Twinkie beforehand, or his beard don’t fit so you must acquit, or some such. As a self-respecting jihadist, Major Hasan quite reasonably resented being portrayed as just another all-American loon gone postal...
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BINGO!
I wish Mark would get his own talk show instead of just filling in for Rush, now and then................perhaps taking Hannity's time slot!?!?!
It is obvious the current PC US military justice system, the effete command structure, and the entire Dumbama Administration is a failed system which previous generations would have been ashamed of and would long ago have ripped out and obliterated from the national scene.
Mark is fantastic——
After Major Hasan’s pre-post-traumatic workplace wobbly, General George W. Casey Jr., the Army’s chief of staff, was at pains to assure us that it could have been a whole lot worse: “What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty.” And you can’t get much more diverse than letting your military personnel pick which side of the war they want to be on.
Steyn is a national treasure.
Thanks for linking to the print version.
That might be a bad idea. We got the guns. And ammo.
Someday a real journalist will do a piece on why newspapers died. He'll go back and look at the quality of internet news when papers started going under (and blaming 'the internet') - and discover 'the internet' offered almost nothing back then EXCEPT a nascent 'both sides'... which was enough to start the process. The death of newspapers was self inflicted - a thousand stupid cuts.
Journalists date themselves - the equivalent of saying 'that's heavy' and 'groovy man'...
Our military has been successfully destroyed by those who want to take America down.
There isn’t a lick of common sense in ANY of the upper reaches of our government.
We have had our head removed and replaced with the seven heads of a commie rat bastard hydra.
It took the evil of totalitarianism 95 years, but they have won, regardless the way they lied, cheated,
brainwashed, bribed, threatened, propagandized, and murdered their way up, they’re at the top.
And it’s about to topple.
Well either:
1. “Our military has been successfully destroyed by those who want to take America down.”
or
2. “There isn’t a lick of common sense in ANY of the upper reaches of our government.”
Alas I think the truth is #1. Sure there may be some cases of #2 in the US government but in general, I think the White House is getting what it wanted. Ultimately this is what the US population voted for.
I don't think Hannity's audience could handle the sudden change in intellect.
Because the MB WANTS to delay long enough to suck us dry.
Because 0bama wants to glaciate our military.
Because the Left wants to completely undo everything ‘American.’
Because Soros said that America was to only thing standing in the way of a new world order.
Because 0ba/Jarrett/Holder want to kill as many of us as possible under the color of authority.
And because Hasan is a general in the US Army, as well as in AQ. His having access to who knows what intel helps traitors and terrorists everywhere.
Yup. The good part is their kind make for terrible soldiers and are easily defeated.
I know of 2 20 plus year MSgts that recently left and both, not knowing the other cited the same reason. “I refuse to suck XXXk for a paygheck.”
Both said the military has become every bit corrupted as DC.
Three years, eight months, and eight days later, the Japanese surrendered ... Three years, nine months, and one day later, his (Hasan) court-martial finally got under way.
The ENTIRE difference relates to the actions of the man occupying the Oval Office - FDR vs. 0bama.
Why won't 0bama declare this a terrorist act? 0bama is a muslim terrorist.
Wake up America. The occupier-in-chief has fundamentally transformed your country. And it ain't for the good.
This has to be one of the best pieces I have ever seen out of Steyn, and that’s saying a lot.
5.56mm
Ding~! Ding~! Ding~! We have a winner
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