You of course remember the case of army Major Nidal Hassan, who went on a rampage down in Fort Hood just a little over two years ago, slaughtering 13 unarmed soldiers and wounding 29 others while shouting, “Allah akbar!”
Turns out this was merely a case of “workplace violence” according to the Department of Defense. To be filed in the same bin as “disgruntled postal worker.”
Some in Congress aren’t having any:
Sen. Susan Collins on Wednesday blasted the Defense Department for classifying the Fort Hood massacre as workplace violence and suggested political correctness is being placed above the security of the nation’s Armed Forces at home.
During a joint session of the Senate and House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday, the Maine Republican referenced a letter from the Defense Department depicting the Fort Hood shootings as workplace violence. She criticized the Obama administration for failing to identify the threat as radical Islam.
Sgt Hasan Akbar murdered two of his officers on the even of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Workplace violence.
Private Nasr Abdo allegedly planned a follow-up attack on soldiers at a restaurant outside Fort Hood. Not workplace violence.
Keep up.
Well, the restaurant would be someone’s workplace.
When we are at war (as a result of attacks by others) and unwilling to even properly identify the enemy, we have lost that war.
This is the direct legacy of our indulgence in the poison of political correctness.
And, it has only gotten worse since November 2008.
Just when my disgust at this administration had reached a level I thought could not be exceeded I read this post and the on following on the Fast and Furious program and….
Why worry about external enemies when our biggest threats are probably internal.
i would express myself in the first manner that came to mind when i originally heard about this last night, but what with this being a family blog, and bearing in mind our host’s virgin ears and tender sensibilities, i’ll just tab in the ending bit:
“… sideways with a tanker’s bar wrapped with three rolls of concertina and heated white hot.”
Susan Collins?…….who woulda thunk it?
Greetings:
I heard that her sheik failed to show up at midnight at the oasis. Or that he did.
We can’t fault their religion. Nothing to see here, say the P.C. diversity zampolit. Nothing to see here at all. Just good, old-fashioned workplace violence.
We can’t tell the truth anymore. About anything. And it’s going to destroy us.
Greetings:
Your take is just so typical of the passive-aggressive Islamophobia that’s running rampant in the USofA these days. A muslimaniac steps up to do his allah-dude duty and you try to deny him all the credit due to a soldier of allah-dude and treat him like some character whose coffee came out of the machine before the cup. It’s not going to work. It didn’t work in the seventh century A.D. and it won’t work in the twenty-first. Jihad ‘R” Us.
So they aren’t saying it’s an “Honor Killing”. It could be argued the miltary members are family and they are just trying to restore their own personal honor…
I know, I shouldn’t give them ideas.
The politically correct way to refer to Major Nadal Hassan is as a “non-Rotarian”. The one element that Major Hassan, Osama Bin Laden, etc have in common is that none of them are members of Rotary. Full credit to Newt Gingrich for the new classification.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtjfMjjce2Y