Comments on: Hasan… Shot!

By: G-MAN

G-MAN — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:44:19 +0000

Any excuse to redirect Hasan being a, you know…Muslim. Even the “where did he get the handgun” card has been played. And the hangun referred to being a “Cop killer” gun. Whatever the hell that is.

By: TRO

TRO — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:25:24 +0000

She got shot responding to the attacker and either she or the other guy shot the coward. It’s all good and what the hell difference does it make?

By: Wankette

Wankette — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:55:11 +0000

I’m sorry; I’m just recovering from the concussion I gave myself when I smacked myself on the forehead…

By: Rufus

Rufus — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:31:00 +0000

Am I the only one here who read Heller’s “Catch 22?” Why would anyone not expect the military to have a bloated, nonsensical bureaucracy? A hell of a lot of great guys and gals doing great things all day, everyday, but it’s still a huge, government run program. I imagine it gets more and more efficient, and less and less silly as you get closer and closer to the front lines, but the pencil pushers in Washington and at Fort Hood? How many idioms do we have in our language that come from military inefficiency? “SNAFU,” “hurry up and wait…” and a thousand more.

By: Veruckt

Veruckt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:38:44 +0000

Jeez Outlaw. I had no idea that was all going on and again you just wouldn’t think the military would be subjected to this sort of nonsense. It is just absolutely astounding.

By: Raoul Ortega

Raoul Ortega — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:10:29 +0000

Actually, it’s good that there wasn’t a head shot, and the perp survived. He becomes very incovenient and it will be instructive to see how our betters (both in the military and in the administration) handle that. Too often those people get to dump their mistakes down the Memory Hole, but for some reason, I think pushing Major Hasan down it is going to, in the end, make them wish they’d had more respect for Joe the Plumber.

By: Outlaw13

Outlaw13 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:17:04 +0000

Anyone who has served in the last several years isn’t surprised by anything that has been written or said after the incident.

We are all required to attend cultural awareness and sensitivity training as well as sexual harassment and other equal opportunity classes on a yearly basis. Each unit has an Equal Opportunity officer and NCO, who is available to listen to any complaint actual or otherwise and open an investigation into same.

Yes, the military in non-PC in many ways, we are more results oriented as a group. But there is that stuff that everyone is noticing that bubbles to the top when you give it a closer look.

CDR Salamander has a blog, has regular diversity Thursday articles which often highlight the PC nature of our armed forces. In his particular case the USN. http://cdrsalamander.blogspot.com/

By: RES

RES — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:15:45 +0000

Sgt. Munley is now the Donovan McNabb of the Hasan incident: any issues of her heroism (as Floyd points out, she ran to the sound of the gunfire) are secondary to the Old Line media’s desire to have a female hero(ine.) As McNabb’s actual prowess was, for the OLM, secondary to his skin color, so Munley’s actions are secondary to her sex. As John Ford “wrote” in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

By: Kenn Christenson

Kenn Christenson — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:16:15 +0000

Guns don’t kill – political correctness does!

By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:10:50 +0000

This whole instance, be it the shoooting, Hasan, the lead up, the Army’s response, the response of the White House and the response by the media, has been illuminating. How rare that something, in this case political correctness, is shown to be such a colossally dangerous mechanism. It’s so ingrained in the leadership and elite quarters, even though well over a plurality of those polled want this treated as a terrorist incident the Army, which was supposed to be the least politically correct segment of our society left, is left grasping at straws and laying out platitudes.