A soldier, a Major, a Psychiatrist, a person sworn to help soldiers cope with numerous tours of duty and the combat stress that haunts so many of our soldiers, has done the unthinkable---lost his own grip on sanity and methodically killed and wounded over forty of his own countrymen. Fort Hood , Texas has become our latest killing ground.
Thousands upon thousands of soldiers pass through Fort Hood at any given time. My son spent his time there during his first years of service. And we don't think we have to worry about our service boys and girls while they're on American soil---at least, we didn't until today. I have to ask,
"What is becoming of our country? Is killing becoming second nature to us? Are we becoming no better than the terrorists that we have vowed to eradicate?
Or, are we still turning a blind eye to the terrorists who are working their way into our confidences? Are we too trusting, just to show how open-minded and receptive we are to other beliefs and policies? For as with Major Hasan, who is believed to have been a convert to Islam, were the killings supposed to be his way of striking out at the American government? The United States is very tolerant of any religious life. Our constitution, and particularly the First Amendment, guarantees all citizens the right to have and express their faith.
I'm sure Major Malik Nidal Hasan did not consider our soldiers, who like himself, were being deployed to Iraq or Afganistan, to be innocent victims of his misplaced faith (or just plain unjustified rage). The average American soldier is there to do a job---the job to help relieve the oppression of people anywhere in the world. Their primary issue isn't to kill indiscriminately or because of a person's political or religious beliefs.
How many more lives must be sacrificed before our leaders open their eyes to what has been right in front of their noses since pre-9/11? Have we learned nothing? I'm sure not all Muslims hate Americans or the American government, but there have to be some sort of warning signs that are a prelude to the massacres that stain our homeland. How much longer before our own country is torn by civil strife that keeps third-world countries third-world'?
The radical Muslim must realize that their project has brought more disadvantage than benefit to the Muslim world. And if they truly want to fight for the Muslim world, they need to recalculate what the Muslims have experienced after 9/11. And on the same hand, the United States government needs to understand that their interventionist policies have just triggered more hatred of our government and its people. But there again, we are not a country to stand by while innocent people are killed and maimed by radicals and terriorists.
We have our problems---killing won't solve any of them.
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