Maj. Nidal Hassan
[From article]
Maj. Hasan says he's a soldier for the Taliban. Maybe if the Pentagon were to reclassify the entire Afghan theater as an unusually prolonged outburst of "workplace violence," we wouldn't have to worry about obsolescent concepts such as "victory" and "defeat." The important thing is that the Army's "workplace violence" is diverse. After Maj. Hasan's pre-post-traumatic workplace wobbly, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army's Chief of Staff, was at pains to assure us that it could have been a whole lot worse: "What happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty." And you can't get much more diverse than letting your military personnel pick which side of the war they want to be on.
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In this week's one-minute statement, he spoke more honestly and made more sense than Obama, Gates, Casey, the Armed Forces Court of Appeals, two judges, the prosecution and defense lawyers, and mountains of bureaucratic reports and media coverage put together.
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The response to Nidal Hasan helps explain why, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, this war is being lost – because it cannot be won because, increasingly, it cannot even be acknowledged. Which helps explain why it now takes the U.S. military longer to prosecute a case of "workplace violence" than it did to win World War II.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0813/steyn081213.php3#.UgiVt900i6Y
Jewish World Review
August 12, 2013/ 6 Elul, 5773
Fort Hood jihadist shrink came clean about himself; why can't we?
By Mark Steyn
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