Asleep at the wheel is the only explanation for this oversight. Our CIA and military officials dropped the ball on this one. Hasan's actions prior to his rampage should have taken seriously.
In my world of electrical maintenance and distribution, if someone is injured because of a violation of a safety rule, the responsible person is fired. In the Hasan case, the responsible people who ignored Hasan's dubious activity should be fired.
So did the Army know and do nothing? Or did the CIA just never pass along the intelligence? Does it even matter?
It is not like Hasan’s radicalism was a big secret. His calling card had SoA or “Soldiers of Allah” on it. His fellow soldiers were given the Koran. He complained to commanders about being sent to an unjust war.
Hasan wasn’t the “quiet loner” who shocked everyone. Everyone knew about his radical bent and no one did anything. Roger L. Simon already eloquently expressed the answer for why no one spoke. Political correctness kills
Did President Ronald Reagan bring down Communist Russia? One could argue that Communist Russia was a bankrupt society economically and ethically before President Reagan took office. However, President Reagan pushed Russia to dismantle the Berlin Wall and took the steam out of Russia.
The only man who foresaw the Soviet collapse and implemented policies to bring it about was Reagan. During his first term Reagan pursued tough policies aimed at curtailing the Soviet nuclear threat and stopping Soviet advances around the world. Calling the Soviets an "evil empire," Reagan initiated a massive defense buildup.
He deployed Pershing and cruise missiles in Europe. He sent weapons and other assistance to anti-communist guerrillas in Soviet satellites like Afghanistan, Angola and Nicaragua. He announced a new program of missile defenses that would eventually "make nuclear weapons obsolete."
These measures were fiercely resisted by liberal Democrats, who decried Reagan's policies as confrontational and likely to make nuclear war more likely. But Reagan's military buildup and his missile defense program threatened the Soviets with an arms race they could ill afford.
His doctrine of aid to anti-communist guerrillas halted Soviet advances in the Third World: Between 1980 and 1985, not an inch of real estate fell into Moscow's hands.
FBI has found evidence that Hasan was involved with dubious individuals who were being tracked.
A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki.The official declined to name the individuals but Congressional sources said their names and countries of origin were likely to emerge soon.
Was Ronald Reagan president during the fall of the Berlin Wall? Ronald Reagan's actions drove Russia to tear down that wall.
Gosh, it seems that during all the hoopla over the celebrations surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall, the press forgot to mention the driving force that brought down the Berlin Wall. I guess the press just wants to revise history.
Oh well, the press also wants to revise today's news. During the campaign, President Obama was the Messiah. Will the press stand by this story?
That's right. In a four page report from ABC News titled, "Tens of Thousands Celebrate 20th Anniversary of Berlin Wall's Collapse," Ronald Reagan is not even mentioned. Not once.
And from what I have read, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton didn't mention President Reagan, and neither did President Obama in his taped message. I hope I end up being wrong about that, but I kind of doubt that I am.
Is the media being overly sensitive and too politically correct? Are they trying too hard to explain away the acts of a lone gunman bent on killing as many Americans as possible? Has the press been pressured into denying the obvious? Namely, the murderous act of the FT Hood shooter may have been a terrorist act? As more is known about this tragedy, terrorism may be the only explanation.
There is only one term that adequately describes the massacre at Fort Hood: a terrorist attack. The media tries to avoid this term, but the more that is known about the killer, the more it becomes clear that this premeditated and deadly attack on unarmed soldiers and civilians was driven by his belief that Islam should rule the world.
