House Republicans were keen Wednesday to find out why a report titled “Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood” fails to discuss Islamic extremism as a possible motive for Maj. Nidal Hasan’s attack in November, which killed 13 and wounded 43.
Frustrated by the Department of Defense’s description of the Fort Hood rampage as an “incident” by an “alleged perpetrator,” several members of the House Armed Services Committee wondered if political correctness is besting common sense as the US tries to understand the nature and strategy of its enemies.
It might be because the man was mentally ill. Which was prior, illness, or a deep hatred?
It might be, John, but it also most evident that Hasan was turned by a militant Islamic cleric in Yemen. Hasan’s mental state is secondary to the fact that Islamic terrorists exploited his instability and made him a weapon for their own ends. If it had not been Hasan it would have been some one else.
The President calls it an act of terrorism, but former Secretary of the Army Togo West doesn’t? Political Correctness continues to be alive and well in the U.S. Armed Forces.
they’re all scared of being called raaaaaaccccciiiiissssttttt! Political correctness killed and maimed these innocents, yet the DoD seems willing to rub salt in the wounds of the survivors and their families….
Sorry, but there isn’t anything “alleged” about it.