Major Nidal Malik Hasan: the Hater as Victim
I wonder if "innocent until proven guilty" applies to Nidal Malik Hassan. President Obama cautioned in a TV appearance that we should rush to judgment until "we know all the facts." However, I suppose we can draw conclusions about thirteen dead soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas. They were heroes, and they were shot down with malice at the hands of a man they had accepted into the brotherhood and sisterhood of military service. Must I add that obligatory but often absurd word required by the legal profession: Allegedly?
Already, there are obvious indications that these murders are being handled as a psychological matter rather than the political and human tragedy it is. Here's a bit of what some people are saying about Nidal Malik Hasan:
The Army major who killed thirteen people in a Fort Hood, Texas shooting spree was frustrated, harassed by colleagues and superiors, and opposed to military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. To sympathizers trying to develop this narrative, it won't matter that the military has been for many decades an all-volunteer force and that one swears to uphold all lawful orders whether one agrees with them or not. Nor will it matter that Hasan was commissioned an officer with little of the extreme hardship and sacrifices borne by most members of the military, enlisted and officer class alike, and inclusive of their families. It won't matter to terror apologists that Major Hasan went straight from college to a highly paid, privileged, and prestigious military job that required little in the way of military orthodoxy, except for the primary condition of being taken at your word to serve and protect the United States of America.
Already, there are obvious indications that these murders are being handled as a psychological matter rather than the political and human tragedy it is. Here's a bit of what some people are saying about Nidal Malik Hasan:
The Army major who killed thirteen people in a Fort Hood, Texas shooting spree was frustrated, harassed by colleagues and superiors, and opposed to military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. To sympathizers trying to develop this narrative, it won't matter that the military has been for many decades an all-volunteer force and that one swears to uphold all lawful orders whether one agrees with them or not. Nor will it matter that Hasan was commissioned an officer with little of the extreme hardship and sacrifices borne by most members of the military, enlisted and officer class alike, and inclusive of their families. It won't matter to terror apologists that Major Hasan went straight from college to a highly paid, privileged, and prestigious military job that required little in the way of military orthodoxy, except for the primary condition of being taken at your word to serve and protect the United States of America.
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