Imagine That! Political Correctness Kills Innocent People!

By Semperpapa

This one is to be filed in the “No Duh!” category.

A senate report has been made on the investigation of the massacre committed by Army Maj. Nidal Hasan at Ft. Hood, Texas, in November 2009.

The report, which was addressed with the necessary drama by Sen. Joe Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins, clearly shows that the background of the crime was peppered by failures of the FBI and the Military to address the clear signs of radicalism that Hasan had been demonstrating for some time prior to the day of the terrorist attack.

According to the Associated Press, the report describes the failure of the Defense dept. and the FBI to recognize the obvious signs that Hasan had become a radical Islamist and a great potential for violence.

The FBI, according to the report, had not made the Military aware of the repeated communication Hasan had had with the Anwar al-Awlaki, the American jihadist in Yemen.

All the actions and behavior indicated that Hasan could present a danger for fellow soldiers and civilians alike, but the FBI had deemed the information accumulated as not a terrorist threat.

The Military, on its part, failed to properly evaluate Hasan during his ascension in the ranks, turning a blind eye to the poor performance and attitude of the man and therefore failing to separate him from fellow soldiers at time of war.

Well, I sure am astonished!

And it took over a year, not to even mention the cost to the taxpayers, to find out and make the obvious official.

In the hours following the massacre, I can remember FBI agents at the scene declaring clearly that the attack was not terror related. Those were the days when the administration had decided that the label “Islamic terrorist” was not to be used; that Islamic terrorists were not representative of Islam, but more like “misundestanders” of the religion of peace; and those were the days when terrorist attacks were not terrorist attacks, but man-made disasters.

Since his first day in office, Obama has been engaging in a politically correct crusade to sanitize the actions of radical Islamists actions, trying to instill in the American people the notion that those perpetrating acts of terrorism against the United States in the name of Allah were not representative of the whole so-called religion.

While I may agree with the premise that not all Muslims are terrorists or subscribe to the ideology of murder of innocents, it is a dangerous fallacy to discount the radicalized percentage of Muslims as just misguided and marginalized.

By just the analysis of strict numbers, considering that followers of Islam across the globe are over a billion, even is 10% of that is radicalized, the potential for murderous acts is, in my humble opinion, astronomical.

Is political correctness behind Obama’s behavior toward the Muslim world? Truly, only the man can answer the question, only Obama knows what is in his heart. What we are left with is the mere analysis of his actions and the consequences.

The duality of reaction demonstrated by the president in response to the Iranian unrest in 2009 and to the events in Egypt today, leaves many questions unanswered.

In Iran, the unrest was caused by evidence of fraudulent elections that kept Ahmedinejad, an Islamic extremist, in power. Support for democracy and fair assignment of power in that nation should have been an immediate reaction from the White House, in step with the American tradition. The political alternative was there represented by the opposition candidate.

And yet, Obama was unperturbed by the scene of violence and carnage in the streets of Iran, taking the position of neutrality so not to appear as “meddling” in the internal affairs of another country.

What a difference with Egypt.

The civil unrest in the streets of the North African nation was immediately embraced by the administration, even though there is no clear indication of what could follow the popular unrest.

Suddenly the White House was not reluctant to meddle in the affairs of another country, not preoccupied with the power vacuum that the situation may cause in a nation that has been an ally in the war against radical Islam terrorism, a nation with the seventh largest military.

Political correctness is certainly the culprit of the handling of Hasan as far as law enforcement and the Army is concerned. The fear of bad publicity, the desire to avoid at all cost a visit from some lawyer from CAIR or, if some money can be made, by Al Sharpton, is behind the failure of the proper authorities to address Hasan’s radicalization and poor performance.

It is clear that several individuals at some level in the government, in the Pentagon and in Hasan;s direct chain of command decided to do what was comfortable and convenient instead of doing what was right and face the potential consequences.

I am of the opinion that the real culprit of that mass murder is Nidal Hasan, but I can also say that if I was one of those who discounted the evidences to protect myself, I would have a hard time sleeping at night.

13 people and one unborn child’s lives were lost that day. 32 more lives were changed forever that day.

Over a year later it took a senate report to tell us the obvious, to tell us what every single American with a crumb of common sense already knew. For some reason I fail to feel any better about the event.

Just my thoughts!