An American Lion

I’ve had a few chances to comment over at Sic Semper Tyrannis about the Major Hasan shooting rampage at Fort Hood, and I don’t have much to add here. I agree that he must be tried by the Army, and the gist of my comments are fairly simple to understand—hang the bastard. I hate to be bloodthirsty, and I certainly want him to have a fair trial and all, but the unspeakable cruelty of his betrayal has me baying at the moon. I cannot understand an ounce of sympathy for that man, I truly cannot. His actions were premeditated and treasonous and terroristic in nature.

When I saw this, I froze up:

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Our soldiers clearly need more care; the last thing they need is to be put into more harm’s way. Even US military officers think so—Matthew Hoh resigned from the Foreign Service in protest of the lack of clear mission and achievable results in Afghanistan, and of course the Ft. Hood shooter was a Major who did not wish to be deployed to Afghanistan.

I have disabled the links, and I think it is quite reprehensible for Code Pink to ask for dollars while asserting that Major Hasan had a legitimate concern about being deployed. He did not. He is someone who has never done anything in the military except go to school, get paid a ridiculous amount of money, and fail miserably in terms of honoring the soldiers who came to him for help. There is no PTSD in his makeup. There is only a cowardly hatred for an institution that could have made him a successful person. What other Army would take a man such as this, give him a commission, educate him, and promote him? The Army tried to make something out of Hasan, and Hasan pissed it away like the misguided fool that he is.

No matter what anyone says, the order deploying Hasan was a lawful order, and he tried to avoid it by shooting and killing fellow soldiers and a contractor. He’s not worth a bullet. He should dangle from a short rope in his wheelchair when they conclude his court martial, and I say that as an opponent of the death penalty.

I have seen a little right wing outrage over this, but I doubt if I’ll see any media or left-wing outrage over such a blatant attempt at exploiting a shooting rampage. To equate Matthew Hoh—an honorably discharged Veteran—with Major Hasan offends anyone with a brain. I have had my own beef with Hoh, but Hoh is no Hasan, and he shouldn’t even appear in the same sentence as Hasan. No decent human being should be smeared that way.