Posted by
Catmman on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 10:51:35 AM
Well, it seems the department of defense is going to whitewash the massacre at Fort Hood.
According to this story, Bill Bennett has analyzed and 80+ page document from the Pentagon in which the words Islam or Muslim --
never appear.
If you read the linked article, it's obvious that the military -- STILL -- will not come to grips with the fact that this country is fighting an Islamic enemy. We will never be able to win a fight or battle, let alone the war until this country comes to grips with the fact that these fanatics want us dead.
Over the last few months of my retirement from the military (Air Force,) I have reflected on the many years I spent serving my country. Over the last few years, especially as a senior noncommissioned officer, it became readily apparent to me that many people in the upper echelons of military leadership just don't get it. The military is a bureaucracy, everybody knows that. What most people don't know, is the extent or the politicized nature of that bureaucracy.
For my next remarks, most of what I'm going to say is a generalization. I spent 22 years in the United States Air Force and know the nature of the service and the military. Not everyone in a leadership position in the military is a moron. That being said, a good percentage of those in leadership positions are morons as anyone who's spent any time in the military knows. That being said, a lot of senior officers in the military, once they've reached a certain position (or rank) stay in those positions, attempt to get a higher rank, or attempt to obtain a senior job position (Wing Commander, Numbered Air Force commander, other senior military position) -- through politics. Political correctness is rampant in various sectors of the military, especially those dealing with any type of cultural or religious issue.
A few years back, I'm not exactly sure what year was, perhaps the early 1990s, Satanists were given permission and allowed to perform their ceremonies on base, at military chapels. Why? Because of supposed "discrimination". Can you believe that? If you are any type of practicing Christian, can you believe that the United States military would allow a Satanist to perform their blasphemous rituals in the same place you would take communion? This is the kind of ridiculousness that permeates the military today. It's no wonder the DOD would try to sweep the religious aspects of the Fort Hood murders under the carpet.
The report is chock-full of platitudes and psycho-babble. For good measure, they even threw in a reference to white supremacists being a danger to society. From the excerpt read at the linked article, it seems like this report could've simply had the header and footer changed from the Homeland Security report last summer. That the Department of Defense, the very organization tasked with protecting all of us and the country, and fighting the war on terror, doesn't have the courage to address the real problems and dangers posed by the Fort Hood killer, is offensive.
But you would be reading a complete and total whitewash. You'd be reading a lie of a report. But that is what the Pentagon has produced.
Here was a situation where an Islamist reached out to Islamist imams like Anwar Awlaki who has worked with other terrorists, including 9/11 hijackers. Where he had a business card that read "Soldier of Allah," Where he yelled "Allahu Akbar" as he opened fire on fellow soldiers and Americans. Where he delivered a lecture and said "non-Muslims were infidels condemned to hell who should be set on fire." Where he told his neighbor the morning he set off on his rampage that "I'm going to do good work for God." Where he said his allegiance was "to sharia law" not "American law" when asked by his colleagues. Where his classmates said "no one would . . . have trusted him with anything."
And yet he was made a major. And yet he was educated by the U.S. military. And yet he was kept in the U.S. military. And he then went to war with the United States.
How will this play for the defense of Major Hasan? Will they use this report to downplay his obvious religious fanaticism? If the Department of Defense is not willing to admit that Al Qaeda has any connection to this event (even though Maj. Hassan had contact with Al Qaeda operatives) then in my eyes any connection to terrorism is at the very least muted. Oh, I suppose they could make the case this was an act of domestic terrorism but that completely ignores the fact that this simply wasn't the act of a "lone gunman".
Hassan is a terrorist. He murdered American servicemen based on his devotion to his Islamic faith. The Army is ignoring that. They are doing it purposefully which makes this all the more insulting and offensive.