Emails show that the military thought Nidal Hasan was unfit to serve, but no action was taken

  According to this article, higher ups in the United States military thought that the Fort Hood terrorist, Nidal Hasan, was unfit for military service, yet no action was ever taken to remove him from service. Instead he was allowed to finish his training, was promoted, and then sent to Fort Hood where he committed his terrorist attack.

  They also knew that Nidal Hasan was in email correspondence with Anwar al-Awlaki– who advocated for his followers the join a terrorist group and kill Americans– but they wrote this off as part of his psychiatric counseling of other GIs.

  It appears as if all of the warning signs were there but that they were ignored; this was an attack that was preventable and you have to wonder why the military was either too slow or unwilling to act before it was too late. I have to look at political correctness as a possible reason for the military’s reluctance to do anything with this killer. It seems that they were afraid to come across as anti-Muslim if they were to reprimand and remove this man from the military, so they ignored what should have clearly been warning signs.

  The questions that need to be asked are, who were they afraid to offend; was this simply a case of the military being afraid to offend Muslims in the countries in which we are fighting terrorists, or where they afraid to appear to be anti-Muslim to the people at home? Where they afraid that if they reprimanded Nidal Hasan, it would give the radical Muslims a rallying cry and a recruitment tool? Did the order come down from even higher that the country couldn’t afford to “target” a Muslim in the United States military because of the message that Barack Obama is trying to send to the world that we are a “kinder, gentler,” nation and this would go against his outreach effort to Muslims across the world?

  I don’t know the answers to these questions, but they need to be asked. We lost American heroes on that day that should be alive today– and would be alive today if the proper action was taken in time– and somebody needs to be held accountable.