He is not my brother in arms. He betrayed his oath. He betrayed his fellow soldiers.
Segments of the media seem to be trying to make a tighter connection of Major Hasan to the rest of the soldiery.
Heh.
I reject that premise.
There are segements of the media who are trying to take "compassion fatigue" (a real malaise, I've seen and tasted it myself) and turn it into "pre-PTSD" or "PTSD-by-proxy" given Major Hasan's counseling of soldiers plagued with PTSD.
Okay. We take the measure of a person by how they respond to adversity.
Major Hasan responded by murdering people who thought they had every reason to trust him, and certainly no reason to fear him.
Brave, brave Sir Robin!
Meet Captain Karla Clarke. She has served continuously in the Landstuhl ICU since 2005, with the exception of the year she spent at 'Baghdad ER'. When she leaves there next month, she is going to.... the Burn Unit at BAMC.
Army Capt. Karla Clarke, center, an ICU nurse at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, assists in transporting her patient to a bus for air transport in August 2007. LRMC has become the only hospital outside the U.S. designated as a Level II trauma center. Photo: Ben Bloker, Stars & Stripes.
Take the measure of this soldier, as related by MaryAnn of Soldier's Angels Germany:
These are just 2 of Karla's hundreds and hundreds of patients.
She would not leave this soldier until MaryAnn promised to stay with the family.
I rather suspect her good days were better than Major Hasan's worst.
Yet, there are no indicators that she's going to be picking up a pistol anytime soon.
Except, perhaps, to defend her patients against a Major Hasan.
Probably the same segments that declare the Phamily Phelps is a Conservative Christian church...
If listening to terrible war stories without actually having experienced yourself is enough for a valid PTSD diagnosis, then every military mom, wife or friend whose ear has been bent by the same stories Hasan may have heard, also should be a candidate for a PTSD diagnosis.
Although, in Hasan's case, it was a case of Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
www.jihadwatch.org/ also has several.
Papa Ray
*Dr Sean Maloney*, I think you are right on the mark with this PTSD issue, the Intel Community may have actually known this earlier then they are reporting, Then he was working at Bethesda Naval Hospital or the Medical School attached to Bethesda. It appears that during this whole time he was trying to contact al Qaeda, We see this from the end of the Summer 2008, to the present, 11/09/09. We see the same stove pipes as 2001.
A hero.....heroine. She deserves a place...a loooong time from now...in Valhalla...
For the murdering terrrorist of Ft Hood, you will rot in hell, it might be a bit of a wait but your goats are patient!
In addition to helping the people he may have addled, somebody had better be looking into how many people he recruited-and for whom. Fast. And they won't all be as readily identifiable as he is. This isn't paranoia-it's prudence.
"This isn't paranoia-it's prudence." I would just say that's *common sense*. But I'm reminded, common sense is not all that common. So, we'll stay with your word "prudence".