If we can’t identify the enemy, how can we fight them? From Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal:
…In this report, titled “A Ticking Time Bomb” and put out by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, there is a detail as dazzling in its bleak way as all the glowing misrepresentations of Dr. Hasan’s skills and character, which his superiors poured into their evaluations of him. It concerns the Department of Defense’s official report on the Fort Hood killings—a study whose recital of fact made no mention of Hasan’s well-documented jihadist sympathies. Subsequent DoD memoranda portray the bloodbath—which began with Hasan shouting “Allahu Akbar!”—as a kind of undefined extremism, something on the order, perhaps, of work-place violence.
This avoidance of specifics was apparently contagious—or, more precisely, policy. In November 2010, each branch of the military issued a final report on the Fort Hood shooting. Not one mentioned the perpetrator’s ties to radical Islam. Even today, “A Ticking Time Bomb,” co-authored by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I., Conn.) and Susan Collins (R., Maine), reminds us that DoD still hasn’t specifically named the threat represented by the Fort Hood attack—a signal to the entire Defense bureaucracy that the subject is taboo…
Liberal, political correctness has now become official military policy…and while the mid-level officers and the troops will be, at the moment, little affected by this nonsense, any officer who aspires to a star on his shoulder while Obama is President may be both knave enough to vend and fool enough to swallow this snake oil. This is just a hideous dereliction of duty – if the officers who wrote the reports were at all worth their salt, they would have resigned rather than put their names to such garbage.
But, make no mistake about it; there are always officers in any military who will trim their views to curry favor with their political masters. Not all of them who wear the uniform are like Rep. West who, as a Lt. Colonel, opined that he’d walk though hell with a can of gasoline for his men. We’ll have quite a lot of rebuilding to do once we get Obama out of office.
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