The Los Angeles Times is reporting between five and eight Army officers are expected to face discipline for failing to take action against the accused Ft. Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, over a series of behavioral and professional problems in the years leading up to the November rampage.
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An armed society is a polite society.
I agree, but I see a lot of that in society especially by people who are paid by the government. Child Services is one, people repeatedly making complaints on abused children only for the children to turn up in the hospital or worse. I think this has a lot to do with the expectation of society in general that all people are really good, and if we just give them a chance they will see the error of their ways. However this is in contrast to religions of the world which stress that everyone is bad and must strive to be good. A little experience and judgement would point officials in charge to investigate every single incident regardless of how bad it makes their day, or how tired they are after all that paperwork. I have seen with my own eyes people floating cases because of all the paperwork accompanying it.
Yes, the officers at Fort Hood need to take their share of whatever legitimate blame there is to be passed around. However, the roots of the tragic debacle at Fort Hood are in the new Administration’s Politically-Correct rose-colored glasses. We are now constrained by PC etiquette not to “profile”, not to call this a war on terror (until some Presidential speeches quite recently), etc. Most telling, on this point, is that the Secretary of Defense–when asked if Fort Hood was “an act of terror”–replied “I don’t even want to go there”. What does that mean???!!! This kind of thinking is what doomed the victims at Fort Hood, long before the officers now being made scapegoats ever made their mistakes. It’s the same mentality that allowed the Nigerian man to buy a one-way ticket for cash and step on a plane bound for the US without any luggage–even after his father informed authorities he was radicalized. The President said that “the dots were not connected” which would have prevented the young Nigerian from boarding the plane if they had been connected. It is the Politically-Correct mentality that is deeply embedded in this administration that will never connect the dots, because they cannot bring themselves to say someone looks guilty–unless, of course, they are a white Christian upper-middle class male!
I hope they are punished, they certainly had a responsibility to at least write a memo to their commanding officer of an alleged threat to national security.
I was in the Army and Army Reserve for 12 years. I witnessed many instances of officers failing to take appropriate action against individuals for improper conduct. It is easier to quietly transfer the individuals to other units (along with their problems) than take action and risk an equal opportunity complaint. The command structure in the Army is paralyzed by fear over bias or racism complaints. What they don’t consider is the damage they do to the units that these misfits are sent to. In this case, the damage is incalculable. Until they confront this issue head-on and do what is right instead of politically correct, this kind of thing will happen over and over again