Tragedy at Fort Bliss
I have not posted in over a week. Unlike my last announcement that I was back, I had to leave again. My sugar became unstable, and I was unaware of it, as I got sick like a stomach flu, until one of my medical friends suggested that I test my sugar (I do not do it every day. Because my diabetes has been controlled so well, that I do not even think about it). It was my sugar, do to my lack of medication for about two weeks. I borrowed some medication from my pharmacist and will be getting the rest later this week-end. Thank you for your prayers.
Today is not a Bible or Theological Blog. My mind, as the nation has been overwhelmed by the tragedy at Fort Hood, Tx. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has captured the attention of the nation. I, like many others, are appalled at the situation that unfolded in Texas yesterday. This smells of Bureaucratic Blindness. We have all heard of Officers that have been falling down in proficiencies being shipped to war zones. However, with his well known extremist views, shipping him to the War Zone in the Middle-East, adds credibility to the old joke that Military Intelligence is a conflict in terms. During World War II, we allowed ethnic groups to fight, but for the most part they were in theaters that did not put them in a position of having to choose between their heritage and the Allied War Effort. The War on Terror (not politically correct), is so rife with these conflicts for most Muslims, it is terrible to put them in this position. However, many Muslims can serve in the War on Terror (not politically correct), honorably because they can understand the difference in their faith and the extremist element of Islam.
The last paragraph lays out the problem that should be recognized by the Military. However, with Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, his postings on the Internet and his comments amount other officers should have shown he had problems with the War on Terror (not politically correct). This is not even considering his bad proficiency reports.
Like Islam, the whole Religion is not of this mind-set, the Military is not this stupid. We have the best Military in the World. But a small group of non-thinking, ready to retire, fat a____, pardon my french, Senior Staff apparently dropped the ball.
Most American Islamists abhor what happened in Texas, yesterday. We can not indict both Islam and the Military as a whole. But hopefully those with the authority and the American Islamic community can work together to see this never happens again.
Today is not a Bible or Theological Blog. My mind, as the nation has been overwhelmed by the tragedy at Fort Hood, Tx. Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has captured the attention of the nation. I, like many others, are appalled at the situation that unfolded in Texas yesterday. This smells of Bureaucratic Blindness. We have all heard of Officers that have been falling down in proficiencies being shipped to war zones. However, with his well known extremist views, shipping him to the War Zone in the Middle-East, adds credibility to the old joke that Military Intelligence is a conflict in terms. During World War II, we allowed ethnic groups to fight, but for the most part they were in theaters that did not put them in a position of having to choose between their heritage and the Allied War Effort. The War on Terror (not politically correct), is so rife with these conflicts for most Muslims, it is terrible to put them in this position. However, many Muslims can serve in the War on Terror (not politically correct), honorably because they can understand the difference in their faith and the extremist element of Islam.
The last paragraph lays out the problem that should be recognized by the Military. However, with Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, his postings on the Internet and his comments amount other officers should have shown he had problems with the War on Terror (not politically correct). This is not even considering his bad proficiency reports.
Like Islam, the whole Religion is not of this mind-set, the Military is not this stupid. We have the best Military in the World. But a small group of non-thinking, ready to retire, fat a____, pardon my french, Senior Staff apparently dropped the ball.
Most American Islamists abhor what happened in Texas, yesterday. We can not indict both Islam and the Military as a whole. But hopefully those with the authority and the American Islamic community can work together to see this never happens again.
Posted by Blog With Jim Holmes at 11/6/2009 11:05 AM 
Categories: Political Commentary,Military
Tags: Military Intelligence; Military Ineptness
Categories: Political Commentary,Military
Tags: Military Intelligence; Military Ineptness
The Blame Game
Lady Nancy Astor, a 20th century member of the British Parliament said, “I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.” Mankind has been in the “blaming business” since Eden.
Thus, we use this psychological tool to rationalize, defend, manipulate, or to explain the thinking and behavior of ourselves, and others.
Major Nidal Malik Hasan was apparently angry over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Then in a matter of minutes 13 people were dead and 29 others were wounded. Hasan had commented that the war on terror was "a war on Islam."
Blame friends and coworkers. Osman Danquah , a retired Army first sergeant, had told the shooter that Muslims were fighting each other in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Palestinian territories.
Blame the Army. Dr. Val Finnell said of Hasan that he should have been confronted about his radical beliefs. "In retrospect, I'm not surprised he did it," Finnell said of the shootings. "I had real questions about what his priorities were, what his beliefs were."
Blame the Islamic Community. "I told him, `There's something wrong with you,'" Danquah, co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "I didn't get the feeling he was talking for himself, but something just didn't seem right."
In a sense, blaming is pointless; it will not justify the shootings nor change the reality of the tragedy.
Blame Terrorism. Hasan is said to have jumped on a desk and shouted "Allah akbar!" ("God is great!"). The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2297) says, “Terrorism threatens, wounds, and kills indiscriminately is gravely against justice and charity.”
Blame the wickedness of the human heart. Jeremiah 17:7 says “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
History is filled with episodes of misguided violence in the name of Religion.
What can we learn from this tragedy? Perhaps Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and philosopher, (121-180 A.D.) gives the best answer when he said, “The best part of revenge is not to be like him who did the injury.”
The Persecuted One said, “. . . Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you . . .”
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