Rocmike, can't agree with you more. When I began college it was fashionable to be either a Psychology or Sociology Major. There is an old saying that "when you are young and not liberal, you don't have a heart, but when you are older and not conservative, you don't have a brain". So it is natural for young folks to believe in nirvana and peace and love and all that crap, until you get older, you don't realize (and some never realize) that reality is very different than the perfect little world we are taught in these liberal, feel good programs. Sure it would be great to have world peace and be able to not have to work for a living and just sit in corner and ponder your navel, but wake up America, that just "ain't" reality, ask the people in Rwanda.
I changed Majors after my freshman year. Yes, I originally went into it to learn something about me and my fellow man, what I found was a lot of pseudo-theories and subjective conjecture. Astrology has just as much credence as psychology or psychiatry. Psychiatrist just throw drugs at your problems, Psychologists are just paid friends. The sad thing is that the "cure" rate in these disciplines (except for phobias which is about 85-90% curable) is abysmal, about 3%. These "professional" people fulfill the same functions as the old general practitioner, priest, mother, dad or a close friend.
Over the years I have met some pretty crazy people in these disciplines, including psych. nurses. Like a cop, if you are constantly dealing with aberrations in society, it can rub off on you. We have all seen the cop who stops a car for speeding and drags a soccer mom out of the car and throws her to the ground because she didn't follow his orders quickly enough. That cop has problems. Psych. people are the same way, they begin to view everyone as off-center and sometimes over-analyze themselves as well. You have to be centered before you can help others to be centered.
Hasan was, no doubt, a wack job and a radical Muslim. Lets think this out. He is 39 years old. If you take the normal route to medical school, you generally begin after 4 years of college. So the average age would be @21. He also has a Masters of Public Health degree (MPH). He could have taken this concomitantly with his medical school education where some programs have dual degree opportunities. If he went that route, he would be in medical school for 4 years (maybe 5 with a dual degree), then he has an Internship for 1 year and then a 3 to 8 year (this is for psychotherapy) Residency program. If you add this all up it is from 8 to 14 years. Lets split the difference; 11years. Add that to 21 and you get 32 years old when he would have finished his training. He would then owe the military (since they paid for all this training, actually, with tax payer money) a year for a year.
With an MD he would enter the military as a Captain. It generally takes 3 years minimum to get an advancement to Major. He just got promoted last year, 2008. So, if you add that on he would be 35 now. He is 39 so somewhere he spent 4 years more in school (didn't take a dual program but did it separately), started school later than 21 years old or he was passed over a few times before he made Major. Either way, if you back date all this he made a military commitment around 18 years ago. That would be 1991!
Now what happened in 1991? That would be the Gulf War also known as Desert Storm, that's what! Saddam invaded Kuwait on 2 August 1990. The coalition forces began the air assault on 17 January 1991. The ground assault began 23 February 1991 and the conflict ended on 28 February 1991. Hummm! A coincidence that Hasan joined up, against his families will, in 1991?
Am I the only one that sees this obvious plan by Hasan as an operative sleeper cell for the radical muslim cause? Why would a devout Muslim whose Palestinian family came from Gaza join the US Army to fight Muslims, his brothers? That would be like a Nazi joining the Jewish Army to fight against the Nazis while still staying in touch with Hitler by e-mail. It just doesn't and didn't make sense. Political correctness and those proponents of this practice have the blood of those soldiers at Ft. Hood on their hands.
I am not politically correct and am not apologetic for the greatness of this country. I say it like it is. I like what the Prime Minister of Australia recently said; we are a Christian country, you are certainly welcome to practice your religion here but if you try to prevent me from practicing mine you can enjoy another great Australian freedom, you can leave. We are an English speaking country, if you can't learn the language then go back from where you came we are not going to change everything for you. We are a country of laws, if you do not want to abide by them then you are welcome to be a guest in our prisons or you can leave and go back to whence you came (paraphrased).
For too long the US has allowed minorities to run this country. It needs to stop. We are a Judeo-Christian (in spite of what that idiot Obama said in the UN) nation, founded on these principles, if you don't like this you are welcome to move to godless Europe and deal with their socialistic, over taxed, failing system. We speak English here (my grandparents were from Italy, they learned how to speak English and not try to get everyone else to speak Italian), so learn the friggin' language. No one is making you come here so deal with our rules, don't ask us to change ours for you. Don't march down OUR streets with your flags (and only your flags) and tell us how to run our country. If you don't like it then go the hell back to your piece of crap country and change it!!!
Hasan should have never been admitted into the military in the first place with his background, especially considering what was happening in the world at the time. This was certainly an act of terrorism but the Obama administration will not fess-up to that because it would mean the first terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11 occurred on his watch (of course he ain't watching crap from 35,000 feet in Air Force 1, is he?). The Obama administration can spin it anyway they like but facts are facts. He murdered innocents, crying Allah hu Akbar, and has radical Muslim ties in Yemen. When it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it's a friggin' duck, Obama.
Rocmike, there does seem to be an inordinate amount of terrorists on the left. The nature of a conservative is to resist change. They don't want radical change, leftists do, e.g. eco-terrorist, right-to life terrorists, Peta terrorists, gay and lesbian radicals, atheist radicals, environmental terrorists, economic terrorist (e.g. the Obama administration), etc.
Timothy McVeigh was a Libertarian not a Conservative which the left wants you to believe. He bombed the Murrah Building on the anniversity of the botched Waco Seige by the Clinton administration, as an act of revenge against the Feds. I can not recall any terrorist attack by a Conservative group in my lifetime. Also, not all Muslims are radicals but all political military attacks have been perpetrated by radical Muslims, hummm? You think there is a connection? Political correctness, be damned!!!
