Now I understand why the Fort Hood shooter’s peers did nothing to prevent the massacre — even when he said that nonMuslims should be beheaded and boiling oil should be poured down their throats. There was no military report giving them permission to be concerned.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, is charged in the Nov. 5, 2009, shooting at Fort Hood that left 13 dead and 43 wounded. A Defense Department report, “Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood,” issued to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Jan. 15, found that force-protection measures focused solely on external threats are no longer sufficient and alerted the department to the need for monitoring threats from “self-radicalized” military personnel.
Thank goodness they got that done in a timely fashion. Now, if a guy has a creepy habit of raving about infidels who should go to hell and be set on fire, his colleagues will know that he should “monitored.” Of course they could have always asked someone on the street, including your average five-year-old, but that just doesn’t carry the same pomp as an official mandate from a “Defense Department Report.”
I wonder what the Commander in Chief thinks of this. After all, as Judicial Watch points out, the Obama administration has expressed more concern about protecting “reputations” than protecting Americans from the violent religious fanatics in our midst.
Perhaps if political correctness didn’t run amok in government, military officials would have acted on the “internal threat” presented by Hasan. If you recall, the Obama Administration’s biggest concern after the Ft. Hood shootings was “preventing a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States.”
Somehow I doubt that was much comfort to the families of Hasan’s 13 victims. More at Daily Caller.
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