The U.S. military’s just-released report into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages detailing various slipups by Army officers but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan by name or even discusses whether the killings may have had anything to do with the suspect’s view of his Muslim faith. And as Congress opens two days of hearings on Wednesday into the Pentagon probe of the Nov. 5 attack that left 13 dead, lawmakers want explanations for that omission.
John Lehman, a member of the 9/11 commission and Navy Secretary during the Reagan Administration, says a reluctance to cause offense by citing Hasan’s view of his Muslim faith and the U.S. military’s activities in Muslim countries as a possible trigger for his alleged rampage reflects a problem that has gotten worse in the 40 years that Lehman has spent in and around the U.S. military. The Pentagon report’s silence on Islamic extremism “shows you how deeply entrenched the values of political correctness have become,” he told TIME on Tuesday. “It’s definitely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no longer smirk when it happens.”
[...The] leaders of the two-month Pentagon review, former Army Secretary Togo West and the Navy’s onetime top admiral, Vernon Clark, told reporters last week that they didn’t drill down into Hasan’s motives. “Our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations,” West said.
Bizarre. If all you look at is what happened and not why, you can’t prevent it happening again.
#19 Ah sorry RBG, I misunderstood.
“Bizarre. If all you look at is what happened and not why, you can’t prevent it happening again.”
I would have said insane but we both agree this isn’t going to work.
I still can’t figure out which “cause” you want to see.
You want to see Islam itself as the “cause” of these murders?
Therefore wipe out Islam?
Just like Christianity is the “cause” of all those Irish terrorists’ killings?
Therefore wipe out Christianity?
And the report cites another “suppressed” cause: the idea that the US occupation of the Middle East was the ideological cause of his actions? is *that* the “politically correct” cause that was suppressed?
Clarification, please.
From Wikipedia on Hasan: “military activist, Selena Coppa, said: “This man was a psychiatrist and was working with other psychiatrists every day and they failed to notice how deeply disturbed someone right in their midst was.”
More likely, as evidenced by the US military report above, everyone is afraid to freely express themselves in the land of the free, and PC.
RBG