Posted on 01/16/2010 3:20:15 AM PST by Scanian
There are two basic problems with the grotesque non-report on the Islamist- terror massacre at Fort Hood (released by the Defense Department yesterday):
* It's not about what happened at Fort Hood.
* It avoids entirely the issue of why it happened.
Rarely in the course of human events has a report issued by any government agency been so cowardly and delusional. It's so inept, it doesn't even rise to cover-up level.
"Protecting the Force: Lessons From Fort Hood" never mentions Islamist terror. Its 86 mind-numbing pages treat "the alleged perpetrator," Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as just another workplace shooter (guess they're still looking for the pickup truck with the gun rack).
The report is so politically correct that its authors don't even realize the extent of their political correctness -- they're body-and-soul creatures of the PC culture that murdered 12 soldiers and one Army civilian.
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Well apparently this will end the so-called stepped up call for superiors to report suspecious activity by the Muslim soldiers.
PC is alive and well. If you report you are a bigot. The pentagon is speaking with forked tongue.
The political hacks in charge of our military got the report the great zero demanded.
Peters, as usual, doesn't pull any punches. His report is no surprise to anyone who watched this horror unfold.
It was delusional gutlessness in the organization that allowed the massacre. Anyone who believed that a military culture that had been two generations in the making, two generations of expelling or marginalizing Respecters of the Truth would suddenly NOT be what it was, is himself delusional. The military today is as PC or MORE PC than it was the very day of the massacre.
It will continue this way until it fails utterly in it's mission. Only catastrophic failure will destroy the cancer.
“Hood massacre report gutless and shameful”
Just like the bastard in the Oval Office.
I suppose Obama's DOD could say,
"The system worked."
the official who declined to be named...
“A senior official in President Barack Obama’s administration declined to say whether Hasan might have been taking orders from abroad but did call the shooting “an act of terrorism.”
It was a rare use of the phrase by an administration official to describe the Fort Hood killing spree.
“It certainly in my mind was an act of terrorism as far as the tactic that was used,” the official, who declined to be named, told reporters.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2429430/posts
Mr. niteowl77
This is possibly the best report ever written in the history of our military. Anyone who reads this report with an open mind will (1) know EXACTLY why the military did nothing about an obvious threat to the lives of our soldiers, and (2) know that the problems have not been solved and will not be solved under the current leadership. It’s unfortunate that PC has reached this level, but at least the report proves that political correctness is more important to the current administration than the safety of our soldiers. That’s better than hiding the danger.
Glad you liked the post. Peters’ columns are uniformly excellent, in my opinion.
Combat experienced military should be allowed to be armed at all times, everywhere.
It’s obvious that “no guns on base” doesn’t work.
The report recommended that Army Secretary John McHugh consider career-ending reprimands for "several" officers at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Fort Hood who supervised Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist.
Mealy-mouthed fools who can’t recognize the obvious. I feel so much safer, having these people with blinders on in charge of security.
Knowing Togo West was appointed as an “investigator”, expected nothing less than a complete crapola PC report - no surprise here...
Mr. Peters is right on the money. Real rare honesty from anyone in the MSM on ‘multicultural’ issues. However make no mistake about it. This is not just the case with Obamanation and his minions/administration or even the Left in general. This is a totally systemic problem in American society today. The GOP is certainly eat up with it and even many here are prone to PC’ness. Hell, all American institutions have become enmeshed in it including our churches and schools. It is destroying this nation. The cultural/Marxist revolution was and is very real.
A corollary to this is that if the C-in-C doesn't want to admit to there being a structural problem, getting-ahead-by-going-along dictates that no such problem will be found (as here).
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