On Nov 7, 12:11*am, Harry Hope wrote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-o...tagons-hasan-n...

November 6, 2009

The following item that appeared in the April 22, 2009 edition of Army
Times was about as routine as can be when it comes to Army business.

It read "Orders authorizing May promotions for the following
active-component commissioned officers and warrant officers have been
issued by Human Resources Command."

The name buried among the dozens who got promotions was newly
commissioned Major Nidal Malik Hasan.

From the promotion, it seemed that Hasan was moving up the army food
chain.

So the always tormenting question in the aftermath of a murder rampage
is why did the alleged shooter snap?

The question is even more tormenting when the alleged shooter is an
officer and an educated professional who to all outward purposes
seemed to have found a stable home in the army.

The one answer so far is that Hasan didn't like American war
involvement and was scheduled to be deployed to Afghanistan.

The war opposition and the prospect of being dumped on a battleground
thousands of miles away may well have triggered Hasan's alleged
violent, deranged, whacked out moment of mass murder.

His alleged mass murder spree is a deadly aberration.

The stress that may have ignited it isn't. U.S. Army men and women are
killing themselves at a skyrocketing rate.

At Ft. Hood, 75 service persons have killed themselves since the Iraq
war began in 2003.

This year, nine so far have killed themselves.

In 2008, the military suicide numbers went through the roof.

More soldiers killed themselves than at any time since the Pentagon
began tracking suicide deaths nearly thirty years ago.

The twenty-plus suicides of soldiers last January topped the number of
soldiers killed in Afghanistan that month.

The single greatest factor in the mounting self-induced soldier body
count is the wars, and the stress of either fighting them, the
prospect of fighting them, and the miserable lack of support service
personnel often receive before and after their tour of duty.

The military brass has only belatedly recognized the problem of stress
related violence as a deadly problem that can wreck the morale of
fighting men and women and pose a deadly threat to other service
personnel.

The Army's answer is to shoot or pump the legions of on edge service
personnel with pills, shots, scatter shot counseling and therapy, and
piece meal officer training.

The Army is in the midst of a five year study with the revealing
label, Battlemind to identify factors that affect the mental and
behavioral well being of soldiers.

None of the Pentagon's efforts has stemmed the rising tide of soldiers
murdering themselves.

And now as Hasan has allegedly shown, an off the edge soldier
murdering other American soldiers.

The army's main concern as always is to keep the bodies moving as
quickly as possible to bases, new assignments, deployments, and, of
course, the battlefields.

Hasan was one of those bodies.

The most frightening thing about his alleged rampage is that he was
not an army enlistee in his late teens or early twenties.

He was a trained medical officer, a specialist, and a career officer.

He's now a frightening example of the army's miserable failure to get
a handle on the nightmare stress related violence that has claimed so
many of its own.

Add to the lengthening list of casualties the dozen killed and thirty
or more wounded at Ft. Hood.

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Harry

Well, that might be an interesting story if it was written by credible
journalists. The truth of the matter is that suicide covers a diverse
range of factors, one could probably pull up the numbers for all 17 to
26 year olds, and then track suicide rates to a survey of pop music
lyrics (and a whole range of other social factors). You would also
want to know how many suicides are the result of romance issues, or
drug use. You may come to the conclusion that war is not the cause,
but perhaps thousands of Americans who choose to sit on their rear
ends, instead of doing something to defend themselves, but instead
write stupid blogs that help the enemy, and force real soldiers to
complete tours of duty they should not have to because there are too
many cowards in the United States, and that argument supports a draft?

Not sure what the Huff and Puff Post wants to accomplish, maybe they
should hire real journalists and writers that are not out to collect a
welfare check for not doing anything. This jerk got a sucker punch
in, and the these events are and will be prevented in the future.
The Huff and Puff Post also seems to ignore the fact that this is a
daily event where our troops are stationed overseas? So what's next
Huff and Puff, will you write about how a universal health care plan
where the government takes over the health care system, how easy it
will become for conservatives who eventually take over the government,
to just say, we don't have to overturn Roe Vs. Wade, we'll just make
abortions a non-government covered procedure?

Or will they seriously talk about the reason for unemployment is that
employers do not have the time or the energy to complete endless reams
of paperwork to comply with new and surprise laws made by a lunatic
Congress?

The Liberal Troll was standing in the hole waiting for something to
develop....and WHAP! He got developed? Resistance if futile, you must
comply.......with the truth!

Can you smell el el el el el el el el el .........what the Rock of
Truth, who has the smartest eyebrow in the Universe, and the whitest
teeth known to man, is ............................cooking?

Being that this is the most exciting, most entertaining, fact finding,
brain busting, fun loving, liberal egg shell mind crunching,
invincible smacketh downeth erectus among us, you can't see the truth
coming, but you know it is anyway, sonic boom of Conservatism, and,
most powerful keyboard in the world,

Do you feel lucky?

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