Fort Hood : ST reaction
The team, including me, did not put up an article due to the tragedy that has happened at Fort Hood. I have personally served there and I am sincerely affected by this. If this happened years ago, people I know and me could be dead today.
One of the most difficult thing about this is that we are shot dead by one of us. That is really a double blow. Major Nidal Malik Hasan guy was not a person of lower rank (like me). He was a freaking Major. He entered the service via the medical route, not by the tougher mean courses like most other Officers go through.
Why? Why did he did it? Is it purely hate? Is it due to Imams in America that spread hate like Keith Olbermann and Rush Limbaugh do? Is it due to overseas influence, that has caused radicalism to seep to the person that should be amongst the most patriotic in our country? Or was it something personal. I really question this.
And even in this the crazy conservatives and loony liberals want to take sides. It is almost as if they are playing with our lives for sake of their games. Governor Jesse Ventura said it best. They are all just interested to keep their jobs, rather than to take our stand.
The far right with loons like Michelle Malkin and Debbie Schlussel went all out berating an entire religion. They start stoking the nonsense that is Islamo-phobia. If we allow a religion to be targeted today, tomorrow it could be my religion, your religion or atheists. These people are stoking hate which is no different to Nazi Germany propaganda against the Jews.
At the same time, the far left continues to ignore the fact that America does have a problem with the radicalization of Islam. Add that to the surging radicalism of Christian sects, it is a mixture that is going to lead to explosive disaster.
I think that the problem is not with the Koran or the teaching of Islam, I think it is the mentality of general Muslim thought is the problem. I feel that Muslim leaders are overtly sensitive to criticism of Islam and I think they feel that Islam is being attacked. That is why they react so strongly to a cartoon that went too far, while they say nothing about the Beslan massacre or 9/11. This is the heart of the problem and it must be solved.
I would also like to add that I agree that this may not be the top priority of Americans. I understand that there are many things out there that trouble some Americans more, like the shooting in Orlando, Florida that took place recently. But I hope that the readers understand that this has a personal touch for me.
We also would like to send our condolences to people that are victims of such a great crime.
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My heart and prayers go out to all the victims, the victims family and friends.
From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney.
The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?)
Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay.
The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me.
I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.
This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.
Thanks. I do not know if it was PTSD. So many soldiers go overseas and I have seen PTSD. I am not saying that it is not as bad, but I have yet to see reactions that is this extreme. They say that it is just as bad as after women giving birth. This guy is psychiatrist after all. He should have understood that.
I really do not know man why this happened. If he did not want to serve in Afghanistan, why? He was not killing people? He was just treating them, and he would have treated Muslim individuals too. So why did he do it? I really do not know…