Posted by
Daemonocracy on Monday, November 09, 2009 2:34:00 PM
In reading Hotair.com I was made aware of a report at ABC News revealing that the FBI and "U.S. intelligence agencies" knew months ago that Major Malik Nidal Hasan had been "attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda". It is unclear exactly what information the FBI may or may not have shared with the military but given the alarming statements Hasan had made earlier to fellow soldiers and written on web logs about sympathizing with those we were at wat with and proclaiming hismelf "a Muslim first and American second", the military had plenty of red flags to investigate this traitor on their own. As we know, they did nothing, and now 12 American soldiers are dead.
After having read this report I flipped on Fox News to find myself listening to LT. Gen Cone talk about Hasan at a press conference where he kept mentioning “Combat Stress Detachment”, “Behavorial Health” and all this other crap. I had to click it off in disgust. I can not stand the military as an institution anymore. They no longer care about our soldiers, it is political correctness which is their primary concern. The military has become yet another dysfunctional bureaucratic government institution, except this one has exceptional “employees” who they don’t give a damn about. Maybe, just maybe, Hasan’s "stress" was caused by the fact that we were at war with his people? Maybe, as the overwhelming evidence supports, he was a dirty traitor? Or would stating this obvious fact be a sign of racial profiling? Perhaps it would expose the incompetence of the military to police those in it's own ranks while writing him off as a nut that cracked would save a lot of people's careers? Blame the soldiers for treating him unfairly because he was different and blame the wars as grieving him with second hand PTSD but don't address the actual problem that lead to this massacre because that would make too much sense.
Another danger to our soldiers who actually are in combat are the current Rules of Engagement (ROE). These were first made aware to me by veterans who have come back from the conflict as well as various comments from soldiers currently in Afghanistan on different blogs. The ROE are smothering them as Obama sits on his thumbs unable to make a decision over sending in reinforcements. Pat Bertroche is a Republican candidate for Congress in Iowa who's blog (PatBertroche4Congress.blogspot.com) clearly defines the problems our soldiers on the ground are facing in Afghanistan today. He writes, "The ROE now in Afghanistan denies our Marines air strikes and artillery support. If our Marines are being fired upon by women and children, and the Taliban and Al Qaeda are using civilians as human shields, right now their only option is to die and hope enough survive the ambushes that they can make it back safely to the base." This is exactly what the soldiers I have heard from have been complaioning about. This is what they have to deal with while on the battlefield and men like Hasan and the PC policies which enabled him are what they have to deal with when off the battlefield. Our soldiers are under attack from both sides and no way in hell would I ever enlist under these conditions.
Remember those military recruitment commercials for the Army where their new slogan was "Army of One", replacing the familiar "Be all you can be"? I suppose this change was made to more accurately describe what your experience will be like as a soldier. Thanks to Political Correctness and the ROE of today you will never be all you can be and will be left adrift as an army of one. You will always be able to rely on those in the foxhole with you of course, but even as a group you will be alone.