printExcerpted from “Your Government’s Jihadi Protection Program,” now up on WND.COM:
“To claim you correspond with an al-Qaida recruiter for purposes of ‘research’ is like saying you read Playboy magazine for the articles.”
“The jihadi who committed fratricide at Fort Hood would never have advanced such fatuities. Leave such deception to the nation’s military and intelligence establishment: Last December, no less than two Joint Terrorism Task Forces finessed Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s extensive correspondence with the infamous radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki as an innocent exchange.”
“The Muslim-American who (‘allegedly’) murdered 13 people and maimed 31 on a United States Army post had been straightforward about his sympathies throughout his military career.”
“Honest Hasan took every opportunity to inform his colleagues and classmates that he was a Muslim first, an American and an officer second, and that Islamic law usurped the Constitution. That minor tidbit failed to rattle the military.” …
The complete column is “Your Government’s Jihadi Protection Program.”
IM- “Honest Hasan took every opportunity to inform his colleagues and classmates that he was a Muslim first, an American and an officer second, and that Islamic law usurped the Constitution. That minor tidbit failed to rattle the military. ”
It is really disturbing our Military has fallen to this level of incompetence
If Hasan was a white Baptist from Alabama he would have been bounced from the Army long ago.
We are a nation “under God” – in Major Hasan’s case, that God happens to be Allah as interpreted by American born Yemeni clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki. Naturally, Nidal’s duty is to this Allah whether the idiots who run “security” are competent enough to investigate since they are busy monitoring more important things such as:
(1) my cat scratching a neighbor, (2) did I label every word in an entirely UNCLASSIFIED slide as UNCLASSIFIED, (3) the urine of civilians in my lab and (4) attending mandatory security briefings which us to report violations – which they DON’T investigate!
We know that the LEFT is responding to Fort Hood by being obsessed about the (non-existent) problem of racist hatemongering Judeo-Christians abusing innocent Moslems in America. They’ll try to pass another anti-gun law since that always stops paranoid hatemongers!
We know that the RIGHT will respond to Fort Hood by passing another Patriot Act. They will follow up that nonsense by sending troops to
Yemen to “liberate” the population, bombing illiterate Sheik Ishmail,
and claiming that anyone who does not “support the troops” and “stay the course” in accomplishing the “mission” (to “protect our freedoms”) is an America-hater just like Major Hasan.
Seeing that the events and the reactions to it have been all too predictable, there is still one huge unanswered question in all this.
Today on Drudge there is a link to an article with the description, “Walter Reed Officials Asked in 2008: Was Hasan Psychotic?”
How exactly does the profession differentiate between a radical Muslim and a psychotic?
How poisonous does any poisonous philosophy have to be before adherents would meet the clinical definition of psychotic?
The definition of psychosis mentions ‘separation from reality’ and ‘delusional beliefs’. Since it’s not Politically Correct to acknowledge the possibility of the existence of objective reality in the first place, who makes the subjective decision? And by what criteria? Faith?
We are admonished to refrain from making value judgments on how people choose from a smorgasbord of conflicting epistemological methods and metaphysical bases. We are expected to view them as simple personal preferences and expect them to shift as situations and perceptions change, without passing moral judgment.
We can expect the reaction to this event to be even more irrational than the conditions that created it. Besides executing the man for murder, what is to be done? To effectively guard against a repeat of this scenario in the future would require the repudiation of a few of the basic tenets upon which the government’s intellectuals have staked their moral ‘high ground’.
They share much of their enemy’s metaphysics and epistemology, and therefore can only defend against its tactics by violating the very principles they claim to be defending. They can’t even truthfully admit what the threat is, let alone what it is they stand for.
It would be funny, if people weren’t dying because of it.
First off, the major did not commit thirteen murders, he committed a military attack, as a member of the enemy which declared war on us, and this is qualified by the facts of the day.
He started it going about his business in his Arab garb, preparing for his planned attack, He began it with shouting from a table top, Allah Akbar, thus proclaiming his allegiance to a force other than that of the uniform he was wearing, and he attacked with carefully aimed shots, military personnel, on a military base, which is a legitimate military target according to internation laws of war.
In committing this act of war, in our uniform, he took on the cloak of a spy and infiltrator, and thus violated the laws of war, and in doing so, made himself subject to a military tribunal, not a court martial, or any other civil trial with rights. Had he worn his Arab garb while attacking, the most that could be done to him, would be to hold him as a prisoner of war until the war is over, however by infiltrating our military, he took on the role of “spy” by international definition, and thus is only subject to a military tribunal, not a court martial.
Had his superiors done their jobs over the previous six or more years, he would have been ferreted out, and would not have ever reached the completion of his medical training, he would not have had a security clearance, and would have been put out of the Army as unsuitable, at the very least, as he demonstrated this fact throughout his time in, according to all reports.
The fact he is set to be tried by court martial marks him as a criminal, and not as the actual combatant he proved to be, and would be foolish, if it were not being used to ameliorate fears that we all should feel strongly, knowing he is but the fourth or fifth from among perhaps as many as hundreds if not thousands, within every branch of service.
If the laws of war were used, rather than the criminal law of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, he would be subjected to a tribunal, and if found guilty, hanged by the neck until dead, with no right to appeal, and no right to an attorney.
It is necessary for this administration, to call this thirteen murders, rather than the actual attack by a military member of an enemy, on a military installation, against a military target, i.e. Soldiers. This makes about as much sense as it would, turning him over to the local police, on the basis that it was one of theirs who stopped the attack by disabling him, and holding a civilian trial in a civilian court.
In declaring his allegiance to The Jihad, as his words did, he declared his chosen side in this war. That he had successfully infiltrated the Army for more than six years is egregious, but it does not make him a major in our Army, not after his own declaration, but only highlights the abject failure of all who were responsible for him in his training and teaching.
If he were treated correctly, he would be put to death with little fanfare and no rights, according to international laws of war. This is the only reason for calling a planned military attack, murders rather than what it truthfully is. This is another grave mistake which will be well used by our enemies, as lesson material.
Sincerely,
John McClain
GySgt, USMC, ret.
Vanceboro, NC
“Hasan was being Hasan”
It’s little wonder so little notice was taken of Maj. Hasan’s Islamism – he had more valuable attributes.
Hasan, being sufficiently different, was diverse. Hasan, being extraordinarily Hasan, was “authentic”. As the prevailing virtues of our elite institutions and society in general, it seems then, that excusing Maj. Hasan’s
crimeactions as being the result of stress brought on by being diverse and authentic is just a bit… what… crazy? Or does victim trump diverse and authentic? You know you’re in trouble when Maj. Hasan is the one person in the room with the surest grip on reality.A wonderful column. The issue of leaving this man with those suffering from the very real illness of PTSD is amazing. Nothing speaks, “I’m an incompetent idiot”, louder then the government run health care systems decision to allow this man to treat it’s damaged soldiers.
“Before unleashing Hasan at Fort Hood, his higher-ups had him practice his anti-infidel “craft” on damaged soldiers in the venerated VA system, the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, to be precise.”
WRAMC is an Army hospital, run by the Dept. of the Army. It is not part of the VA system, which is run by the Dept. of Veterans Affairs. Get your facts straight.
[My, my, and dear me: that’s a big difference, isn’t it? Are you telling me the hospital is run by a different state bureaucracy than the one I cited? I am blown away by the powers of observation of a bred-in-the-bone, well-trained statist. The principle obtains. The/military/state/government runs this establishment. Sorry you didn’t get the gist/thrust.]
“If Hasan was a white Baptist from Alabama he would have been bounced from the Army long ago.” james huggins
Surely, you jest. If every Baptist from the South left the US military it would probably collapse. In any case, I wish every Southerner would quit Lincoln’s Army.
I agree with John McClain about giving this traitor a firing squad (made up of survivors) after a Court Martial for treason – conducting war against the US.
Ilana, I wish you worked in the government so you can REALLY see how stupid our security people can be. Today’s nightmare – one of my co-workers wants to ship a SECRET report TO the research sponsor. Our Security people (think TSA only dumber) won’t send out the report unless it has been approved by the sponsor! [not sure how that stupidity will resolve itself – stay tuned].
It was nice to speak with you today
Where you able to hear what I said on the radio today, as soon as I came on I could barely hear you ? Chuck was having trouble with the phones today.
[I am not always able to guess it’s you, so while I heard you fine, I was hoping you’d introduce yourself, so I’d know it was my regular reader Roy B.]
Great article, Ilana. Here’s what I keyed on:
“For all its faults and infractions, it is inconceivable that Blackwater Worldwide would, as a matter of policy, expose its warriors to a man like Maj. Nidal. No private security firm would subordinate the safety of its prized assets to the missions of left-liberalism.”
I was thinking much the same myself. Why not “outsource” the business of specific foreign operations to U. S. contractors who can do the job, whose companies’ livelihoods depend on repeat business? If they don’t the job to spec, we (the people) can always fire them (i.e. not renew contracts.) And this will occur without the heavy dose of “patriotism” or “God’s Will” heaped upon our soldiers.
If we have a national objective, we should define it clearly, then describe the manner in which it might be met. If we have no national objective, we should get the He** out of Dodge.
We do have a national objective.
It’s called empire.
The military needs and wants the thousands of Third World nationals like Hasan. Who else is there to fight the wars of empire? The elites won’t fight. Ditto for the Neocons. Plus there has been a “birth dearth” in this country over the last generation. Steve Sailer pointed out the shortage of teens qualified for military service. http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/11/06/who-is-qualified-to-enlist-by-ethnicity/print/
So, the Pentagon’s response, like all other large, corrupt enterprises in this country, is to out source to the Third World.
A little off the subject. Mr. Chaillet’s comment “It’s called empire.” Is important, because when one looks objectively at the US; the United States of American IS the biggest empire in history, multiple times larger than the Roman Empire. We have more than enough soldiers; it’s just that they’re occupying other countries. The piece of …. That killed the people at Ft. Hood was a natural born citizen not someone from a third world country. The US Military has long been “Your Government’s Jihadi Protection Program” In 1963 as a naval sailor, I made a comment that was in no way racial or insubordinate, however a Black Chief Petty Officer took offense and I went to court. Six witness’s later, I was found not guilty and given 30 days loss of liberty; because, I had to have a ‘bad attitude.’ When I asked my section leader why I received 30 days when I was not guilty, he advised me that the chief was a proud member of the N.A.A.C.P. and would have protested if I had not been punished. Fact of life, Political Correctness has been with us a long time.
[What an instructive story! Thanks for sharing it.]
Plus there has been a “birth dearth” in this country over the last generation. Steve Sailer pointed out the shortage of teens qualified for military service. Roger Chaille
A parallel to the fact that some animals won’t breed in captivity?
I thought this a.m.’s WND op-ed by Pat Boone, of all people, was so remarkable that I had to include the link:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=116051
Hasan’s treachery leads to conservative, Christian, non-Paulian waking up to the fact that our troops can’t make democracy work in Iraqi and Afghanistan tribal regions, and advocates bringing them home. (!)
My God, this is terrifying revelation of our country’s waywardness. Thank you, Ilana.
Barbara – thanks for the link to Pat Boone who has come to his senses. By the way, does “Paulian” refer to the policy of Ron Paul or MyRON PAULi – same thing!
However, I would be quite leery about leaving the war business up to “contractors” – because the more wars, the more profits.
[Who suggested that? A careful reading of my column—even a cursory reading—will reveal that BlackWater was mentioned in connection with how an organization treats its assets; not who should wage war in the US.]
That has been enough of a motivation for mischief since World War II (e.g. Eisenhower was right) without giving the foxes more keys to the chicken coop.
The founders envisioned a Navy to protect commerce, a miniscule Army needed only if attacked, and a militia to protect security in most cases.
“The world is becoming more tribal.”
I remember well these words of the late, great Richard Estrada. Richard was a board member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and a syndicated columnist for the Dallas Morning News.
Hasan’s allegiance never was to the United States; it was always to his tribe.
But he’s not alone. There are millions just like him. Many of them are in positions of great authority. For example, Sonia Sotomayor is a proud member of La Raza. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=99420 Ditto for Jeb Bush’s eldest son. Though not in a position of authority (and hopefully never!) he is certainly a high profile individual. http://www.vdare.com/misc/archive00/gp_bush.htm
God help the Republic.