01/19/10

Pentagon Whitewash

 

The Department of Defense has released its report on the November incident at Fort Hood, Texas, when Major Nidal Hasan Killed 14 people and wounded more than two dozen others. Hasan considered himself a "Soldier of Allah", a jihadi terrorist. But you would not know this if you read the Pentagon Report on the massacre.

Titled, "Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood," this 80-plus page report mentions the words "Islam" and "Muslim" not once. Not once. It refers to Hasan as a "gunman." As Ralph Peters put it, the report is "not about what happened at Fort Hood." And, "It avoids entirely the issue of why it happened."

You can read that "low self-esteem, depression, and anger are tied to many different types of violence" in the report. You can read about "workplace violence" and "disgruntled employees" in the report. You can read about "Motivations for domestic terrorism" such as "animal rights, "white supremacy," and "religious intolerance" thrown in on equal part among other factors that simply were not in play here in the report. And you can read the grand conclusion that "Religious fundamentalism alone is not a risk factor; most fundamentalist groups are not violent, and religious-based violence is not confined to members of fundamentalist groups."

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. Read National Review's article on it by Bill Bennett.

* * * * *

I am not aware of any true "warriors" above the rank of O-6 (Colonel/Navy Captain) in today's military. The Flag ranks are infested with self-serving politicians wearing yesterday's valor on their chests.

EnemyoftheState

"What If They Held a War and Nobody Came?"
- Leftist Hippie Poster from the 1960s
(when today's generals were impressionable young children)