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Major Hasan, 'Star Officer'
The Wall Street Journal ^ | * FEBRUARY 16, 2011 | Dorothy Rabinowitz

Posted on 02/15/2011 9:17:51 PM PST by Eva

Every branch of the military issued a final report on the Fort Hood massacre. Not a single one mentioned radical Islam.

In a month of momentous change, it was easy to overlook the significance of another revolutionary event. Who would have believed that in the space of a few weeks the leaders of the three major European powers would publicly denounce multiculturalism and declare, in so many words, that it was a proven disaster and a threat to society?

One after another they announced their findings—Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, Great Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, and France's President Nicolas Sarkozy. Multicultural values had not only led to segregated communities: They had, Mr. Cameron noted, imposed policies of blind toleration that had helped nurture radical Islam's terrorist cells.

There can be no underestimating the in-so-many-words aspect of these renunciations. This was multiculturalism they were talking about—the unofficial established religion of the universities, the faith whose requirements have shaped every aspect of cultural, economic and political life in Western democracies for the last 50 years. Still, they were out there—words coolly specific, their target clear

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KEYWORDS: hasan; military; multiculturalism
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I think it took guts for Dorothy Rabinowitz to take on this subject. It flies in the face of all the post modernist progressive thinking, just at the time that Obama thinks he is about to triumph.

We will be watching the Hasan situation closely.

1 posted on 02/15/2011 9:17:54 PM PST by Eva
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To: Eva

Bump


2 posted on 02/15/2011 9:26:24 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: Eva

To anyone reading this thread: go to WSJ and read the Rabinowitz article in its entirety. It is well worth it.

Hasan should never have made it to Major, he should have been drummed out of the army.

I, for one, do not believe he made it so far without having someone, like Obama, as a supporter.


3 posted on 02/15/2011 9:27:24 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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He made it to MAJ for two reasons:

1) political correctness

2) if you have a pulse, you’ll make MAJ

No grand conspiracies about it.


4 posted on 02/15/2011 9:29:13 PM PST by Future Snake Eater ("Get out of the boat and walk on the water with us!”--Sen. Joe Biden)
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To: SatinDoll

This gives me shivers to think about the fact that even the military is bending to the political correctness to this extent.


5 posted on 02/15/2011 9:32:53 PM PST by Eva
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To: Future Snake Eater

The article points out that he was consistently in the bottom 25% of his class and never should have made it to being a psychiatrist, just constantly pushed along.


6 posted on 02/15/2011 9:34:49 PM PST by Eva
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How many more of our military men and women will have to die before they will admit the problem is Islam.


7 posted on 02/15/2011 9:36:15 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Eva

BTT


8 posted on 02/15/2011 9:36:37 PM PST by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress!)
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To: Future Snake Eater

Hasan’s job performance reviews stank. But, he worked in the White House and was known to Barack Hussein Obama.

This ain’t no conspiracy, snake eater: he had an inside supporter.

P.S.: I was a cryto-linguist in NAVSECGRU, and dated snake eaters sea gull eaters both. Good luck on the ‘future’ part.


9 posted on 02/15/2011 9:40:01 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS OUR PRESIDENT!)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

How do you fight a war when you deny the existence of the enemy?


10 posted on 02/15/2011 9:41:51 PM PST by Eva
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To: SatinDoll

Blaming Obama is too easy a target in this argument. This form of political correctness has been infecting our military for the last 40 years. It started with racial concerns , then onto feminist indoctrination, through the whole spectrum of racial and religious diversity and now gay rights.
In a sad sense, I’m glad I retired 2 years ago and no longer have to attend their mandatory training sessions.


11 posted on 02/15/2011 9:51:03 PM PST by WILLIALAL
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In 2100, 39% of the world population would be Muslim. Reproductive advantage is the ultimate competitiveness. The Anglo-Saxon race had wasted its opportunity to become a major race population wise, although it had vast land.


12 posted on 02/15/2011 9:51:04 PM PST by aperture8
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To: Future Snake Eater

He made it to MAJ for two reasons:

1) political correctness

2) if you have a pulse, you’ll make MAJ

No grand conspiracies about it.

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Spot on. There is also an unspoken pressure on the Army to get a return on their investment sending this guy to the Uniformed Services Medical School.

The sad thing that so few people have discussed is the fact that political correctness likely prevented his superiors from dealing with his radical and outspoken views. A single EEO complaint from a protected minority (muslim) would likely end a field grade officers career. When the promotion board sits down to choose who to promote to the next grade you sure don’t want an EEO complaint in your file no matter what finding was made. They still push your packet to the bottom of the pile because most everyone is squeeky clean with good reviews so it does not take much to seperate those who are eligible.

Assuming from your screenname here..... If you make it through the John Wayne School for boys at Ft. Drag (the beach with no water) you will be a proud member of one of the least PC outfits in the whole world. Best of luck and may God bless you and yours.


13 posted on 02/15/2011 9:52:04 PM PST by volunbeer
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To: Eva

The article points out that he was consistently in the bottom 25% of his class and never should have made it to being a psychiatrist, just constantly pushed along

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Affirmative action. He would have never been accepted without it.


14 posted on 02/15/2011 9:54:41 PM PST by volunbeer
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I think we can safely conclude the “management theory” practiced by the United States Military is a horrendous failure.


15 posted on 02/15/2011 9:58:22 PM PST by papertyger (Progressives: excusing hate by accusing hate.)
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The Lieberman/Collins Panel report is mincing no words - including a good slap in the face to the WH -

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/02/lieberman_collins_report_fort_hood_shooting_could.php

“He also blamed the Army's handling of Hasan ahead of the shooting on political correctness, given that Hasan’s presentations in the military sometimes justified attacks on the U.S. He also criticized the FBI, which knew of Hasan’s communications with al Awlaki, for not further investigating those ties.

Describing Hasan as a “human ticking time bomb,” Lieberman said it was important to call violent Islamic extremism what it is, and not use politically correct terms like violent extremism or workplace violence.

....”The enemy is violent Islamic extremism, and when you say that, it shouldn't offend Muslim-Americans, the overwhelming majority of whom are not violent Muslim extremists, they're patriotic law-abiding Muslim-American,” Lieberman said. “So in the Department of Defense I think they need to start by being truthful about what the enemy, who the enemy is here.”

...Collins: “”The administration is refusing to acknowledge that violent Islamic extremism is the ideology that fuels attacks,” said Sen. Collins.

In

http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/fort-hood-shooting-linked-to-political-correctness-senators-claim

“The refusal to distinguish violent Islamic extremism from the peaceful, protected exercise of the Muslim religion sends the wrong message,” she [Collins] said, “as it implies they can't be distinguished.”
Meanwhile Lieberman criticized the executive branch of government for refusing to use the term ‘Islamic extremists,’ saying, “I think some people in the administration feel it will compromise our relations with the broader Muslim world.”

16 posted on 02/15/2011 9:59:28 PM PST by maine-iac7
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I, for one, do not believe he made it so far without having someone, like Obama, as a supporter.

In the first days after the shooting, I read a passing mention stating the Haasan had served on the HOmeland Security Board! that information disappeared quickly.

However, I understand there are still some Muslims on the board.

Golly. I wonder why we no longer have bomb sniffing dogs at the airports - MUCH better detectors than sex molesters. Hmmm - let's see, Muzzies hate dogs. To be sniffed by a dog, to them, would be the equivalent of us getting sexually molested.

I wonder why muzzies get such special treatment going through the TSA lines?

I lie - I don't wonder at all

17 posted on 02/15/2011 10:06:23 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: volunbeer

Exactly, he never would have been accepted to any of the schools and we would not have had this problem.


18 posted on 02/15/2011 10:09:04 PM PST by Eva
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To: volunbeer
few people have discussed is the fact that political correctness likely prevented his superiors from dealing with his radical and outspoken views.

Read the Lieberman/Collins report that just came out.

"The WON" has to be seething. He got a good slap in the face. T's were crossed and i's were dotted.

Hopefully, Congress will use this report to take action and make the changes needed.

19 posted on 02/15/2011 10:12:18 PM PST by maine-iac7
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To: Eva
This gives me shivers to think about the fact that even the military is bending to the political correctness to this extent.

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Been going on for some time.

Look into the Naval Academy and its problem with lower standards.

But it's in full assault mode now with Zer0 aboard.

Obamasalute-1sm

20 posted on 02/15/2011 10:12:36 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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