Who’s fault is it anyway?????
Whose fault is it anyway? Of course I am talking about the Fort Hood shootings. If I hear another left wing pundit feign indignation with the ‘right wing hysteria’ and push the blame for these horrific murders off on (choose one): PTSD, Pre PTSD, The Army, Harrasement, Insensitivity, The Victims, President Bush, The Heat in Texas, The War(s) themselves, etc., etc., etc., I am going to scream. Actually, I think I have screamed one or two times already.
I wonder how much time the media spent during World War II (after Pearl Harbor that is) trying to show how Hitler, Mussolini, or Tojo were just misunderstood men who were probably picked on as children. The ones who did engage in such sophomoric behavior would have in all likelyhood only done so once.
But today’s media is emboldened to say the first idotic thing that crosses their mind, with no real worries about reprecussions as long as they keep their feet planted firmly on the left side of the fence. Indeed the more outlandish the theory, the more the journalist theorizing it’s possibility is regarded as a ‘rebel‘ and ‘brave’ with a ‘fresh‘ outlook. It is almost as if the population today is beyond shock and disbelief at anything expressed by the media. They are unfortunately more likely to accept even the strangest theory as gospel if John Stewart states it as fact, rather than type it in an Internet search engine and look for themselves.
It angers me to no end that 80% of media stories about the Fort Hood atrocity refuse to use the word “terrorist” or mention the religion of the said terrorist. But let someone who spent 3 days in the Army shoot someone and the headline will no doubt read “Former soldier commits murder” it has happended time and time again, so apparently our veterans and policemen .are not entitled to the same respect and benifit of the doubt that we provide our enemies.
I just have to mention here that I have been diagnoised with PTSD, which I never knew I had. Fortunately for me I saw a Nurse Practioner named Kelly at the VA who was very caring and angelic and talked me into seeking counseling through the VA. This counseling really did save my life, certainly not because I had any intention of harming others, but I was personally giving thought to harming myself as I was very depressed.
My Psychologist (who I highly suspect of being a liberal) is none the less a great guy. Now he works at the VA and has to hear REAL cases of PTSD from veterans from World War II forward. And I could no more see this man going crazy and killing Veterans than I could see Alan Grayson and Van Jones calling me up for lunch one day.
The fault with Fort Hood lies at the feet of radical Muslims who preach hate, who preach that the West is the Great Satan, who preach that murderers are really heros, who preach that those who cannot be converted must be killed, who preach the jihad.
Is Political Correctness at fault as some have suggested? Why of course it is, but let’s talk about where political correctness comes from. Who demanded after 9/11 that Muslims not be targeted or profiled by the military, FBI, CIA or any other group responsible for identifying those who plan attacks against the United States? The same people who want to treat Fort Hood as a tradgedy that has nothing to do with terrorism. These are coincidentally the same people who want to protect the rights of the terrorists while at the same time prosecuting those responsible for protecting us.
Blaming the military is all well and good, but blaming the military without remarking upon how the military became the poster child of the political correct is disingenious.
Maybe ending terrorist and ending political correctness are not mutually exclusive.