A military official, Major Shawn Keller, writes on Real Clear Politics about the problems with PC awfulness that have plagued the army (via Hot Air):…

http://truthandcommonsense.com/2009/11/13/hasan-tried-to-explain-it-to-his-colleagues-that-jihadists-werent-crazy-they-thought-he-was-nuts-his-point-exactly/

Now, with this incident, I hope that the brass is not going to just start making everyone act like a prim and proper 14-year old girl, because they don’t want to admit the real problem–a man believed in a certain strain of his religion and followed it to its natural conclusion. Period.

We can have the argument over whether or not excessive belief marks one as irrational–one can have just as excessive a belief in something as global warming as Islam or Christianity–but that may be psychobabble hiding what I believe really happened here–an all-too-human predilection to believe so strongly in a cause that one allows one’s opponents to become dehumanized, mere things to be removed from the field of battle. After that anything is possible. That, in my view, is what happened to Hasan, not some secondary-PTSD.

Oh, he might have got upset from his counseling sessions with soldiers–but not from empathy, but from rage about hearing stories of his fellow Muslims being killed, and him unable to do anything. That is not secondary PTSD, that is a fellow believer finally deciding where he stands on the great issue of the day as he saw it, and acting upon it.

And from that, the military and nation are going to retaliate against the wrong people.

Reading this, I wonder if some of the problem was caused by psychology’s discomfort with religion. The discipline has always skirted nervously around the perception and cognition of religious individuals, occasionally labeling them as “delusions.”

Absolutely. Plus, the unreasonable attitude that a “doctor” couldn’t possibly flip out that badly.

It looks as though the Army was more interested in diversity than security.

Kind of like why we have the POTUS that we have.

Again, we NEED to have anti-political correctness rallies. We need people to realise that the PC-nazis are the reason why race relations are going downhill, why our security is at stake, and why our country is going down the tubes.

One thing that we can all do for a start is no longer using the term (insert nationality)-American. Instead, say black, hispanic, asian, etc.

As the moral and cultural rot of this country’s political and cultural elite advances, it routinely distorts and politicizes decision-making in all sorts of institutions; the military isn’t the first such casualty of political correctness (pun intended), and with the glorious age of Hope and Change upon us, won’t be the last. Disgusting.

The muslim Major was on a shooting rampage yelling “Allahu Akbar!, Allahu Ahkbar!”. How many gay Majors go on shooting rampages yelling, “Barney Frank!, Barney Frank!”?

MB4 on November 12, 2009 at 11:41 AM

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And I thought gays couldn’t openly serve in the military

SouthernGent on November 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM

You don’t have to be straight to serve in the military, you just have to be able to shoot straight.
- Barry Goldwater

The muslim Major was on a shooting rampage yelling “Allahu Akbar!, Allahu Ahkbar!”. How many gay Majors go on shooting rampages yelling, “Barney Frank!, Barney Frank!”?

The Army’s top brass, Gen. George Casey, responded to the military’s shocking decision to keep a terrorist-sympathizing Muslim in the Army by announcing: “Our diversity … is a strength.”

And I thought gays couldn’t openly serve in the military.

SouthernGent on November 12, 2009 at 11:29 AM

Don’t be surprised if Hasan claim to be gay, next.

Just to uber-f*ck with the military’s P.C. mindset.

Walter Reed Scandal Unfolds with General’s Firingby Guy Raz
“It’s extremely troubling that senior officials at Walter Reed now, and in the past, appear to have known about the poor treatment, the lack of support [and] the substandard living conditions,” Clinton said. “And that bothers me greatly.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has already appointed an eight-member team to review procedures at Walter Reed. The committee will release its findings within 45 days.

But that report will not be released before the Senate Armed Services Committee holds its own investigation, scheduled for next week.

“We want to know who knew what, when and how could this have happened,” Clinton said.

According to top Pentagon officials following this story, it’s not over yet.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7681867

The story referenced above involved “substandard living conditions” and led to the firing of the commander and the early retirement of the surgeon general.

Hence, if peeling paint, moldy carpet and long wait lines at Walter Reed resulted in the firing of the commander, what would the promotion and failure to act upon a physician’s fundamentalist ideology that ended up harming his patients result in?

Far less offensive speech has been grounds for discipline or even removal from duties in the military. In the aftermath of the Tailhook scandal, for example, two Navy officers were reprimanded and reassigned after putting up a sign with the words of a nursery rhyme altered to include a vulgar sexual reference to liberal congresswoman Patricia Schroeder.

But a Muslim Army doctor can go around a military installation somberly advocating the beheading of infidels, and the girls running the military treat him like he’s Nicole Kidman and they’re press junket reporters.

The Army’s top brass, Gen. George Casey, responded to the military’s shocking decision to keep a terrorist-sympathizing Muslim in the Army by announcing: “Our diversity … is a strength.” And I thought gays couldn’t openly serve in the military

profitsbeard on November 12, 2009 at 11:21 AM

I’m really angry at reports that he was shouting “Allahu Akbar” which, they say, “means” God is great.
Allah is NOT every body elses’ God, you morons. Certainly not the God of the Christians.

The Army wanted to protect its diversity rather than its soldiers, even if only from a psychiatrist who needed a psychiatrist much more than a combat-zone assignment.

And this is pretty much the same “mind set” that McChrystal, Obama’s hand-picked general, has had in Afghanistan.

We don’t win by destroying the Taliban. We don’t win by body count. We don’t win by the number of successful military raids or attacks, we win when the people [Afghan muslims] decide we win.
- General McChrystal (in London some time ago)

Pre-occupied with protection of our own forces, we have operated in a manner that distances us — physically and psychologically — from the people [muslims] we seek to protect [serve].
- General McChrystal (from his COMISAF assessment of the war in Afghanistan)

Madness, utter madness.

Platoon leader to HQ: Colonel, my Tibetan private was just shot! That destroys my perfect diversity and now I can’t attack the enemy position!

HQ: Hang tight Lt, we’ll grant you a waiver to AR 33-9 “Diversity on the battelfield” and substitute a southern Chilean. Your diversity will be back into specs.

Wait! Wait! I just received a memo stating that your ammo was not made by a minority owned company. I repeat … your ammo was not made by a minority owned company. Do not fire … hold your fire.

darwin on November 12, 2009 at 9:51 AM

A tragic LOL.

(This LOL was approved by SEIU and ACORN as meeting their low carbon footprint mandate and minority set-aside rules, and was made by all organic labor.)

I suspect that any other kind of “delusional” thinking would have landed Hasan into a treatment center as a patient rather than a provider. Why didn’t that happen here? The Army wanted to protect its diversity rather than its soldiers, even if only from a psychiatrist who needed a psychiatrist much more than a combat-zone assignment.

Ed; consider the source. I have worked with many military physicians and they are motivated, dedicated and talented individuals. However, there are outliers who strain at the leash of uniformity and do not embrace the military culture, and/or, in this case, American culture per se. The AMEDD does not purge low-performing physicians. Everyone has a role and is expected to perform–that is what the senior rating and rating systems are all about–getting officers straightened out and performing well.

In the case of MAJ Hasan, the rater and senior rater have both failed the Army. First, if the signs were recognized and the only corrective action was to send this guy on, wait for it, Muslim realitions…then WTFO? Was there any warning, “Hey watch this guy” sent by his rating chain to Ft. Hood? Likely not. In the military, people say, a) he’s an officer and b) he’s a doctor—so they’re expected to have some degree of academic and clinical aloofness, as well as a general lack of military bearing–it’s the norm. Moreover, the same raters that failed to do anything about it were Walter Reed colonel types who probably demonstrate the same lack of bearing that he does—its incestuous.

MAJ Hasan, at his rank and position, had attended only ONE officer development course–Officer Basic Course at Fort Sam Houston TX. May be 6-10 weeks of coffee drinking, powerpoint watching and nurse squeezing antics interspersed with a pushup or two and maybe a run around the track ‘fore the sun comes up. Physicians do not attend the Captain’s career course (a source of military correction and training). So, this guy goes to med school to figure out the sticky side of a band aid goes on the skin, then residency where he learns to throw away the wrapper, cashes a paycheck on the 1st and the 15th and, in the interim, fails to lay down his Islamofascist ideology. A failure that was spotted by his raters and senior raters, who should’ve acted upon his issues.

His behavior could not be judged according to his religious views, because it was pre-deemed “inappropriate” to judge him according to his religious views.

The Great God of P.C. must be serviced.

Carved onto its belly, however, is the phrase:

P.C.- fatal when swallowed.

(Unfortunately, it’s in Arabic.)

Isn’t that akin to giving a pyromaniac gasoline and matches?

Instead, they sent him to a lecture series on Islam in the hope that it might clear up Hasan’s “delusional” thinking on his religion.

Oh that really makes so much sense. If someone is an alcoholic just send them to a wine festival. Yup, that will cure them.