Remember, remember, the 5th of November...

Between being busy and being out of action with the current pandemic disease (unpleasant for sure, but not up to the hype of earlier this year), I've put off saying anything about the Ft Hood shootings. In a way this is a useful tactical pause, as it allows the dust to settle a bit and gives an opportunity to temper my knee-jerk reaction to it.

That time having passed, I'll start with the positive; Sgt Kimberly Munley of the Killeen Tx PD (I hope that's correct) stepped up and shot the murderous Islamic zealot down at risk of her own life. She is as of this writing recovering from being wounded in that encounter, and I can't imagine she'll have a problem finding childcare help while she's getting back on her feet. Her actions (e.g. doing her job) have apparently re-opened the debate about allowing women into combat roles in the US military. That's a moot point on this side of the border as we do it already, and women like her are the justification (if not the impetus) for that.

She shot the fucker 4 times, and you would hope that was enough, but it seems not. One way or another (albeit far more expensively now) Nidal Hasan will go to his jihadi reward, but sooner is better than later.

Yes I said it; Nidal Hasan (I refuse to use his rank) is another religious wacko who thinks that you and I should die because we don't do things his way. He's a radicalized Muslim, and that is what this attack was all about. I don't want to hear any more bullshit about PTSD that he supposedly absorbed by osmosis from his psychiatric patients (Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder maybe?). He's a Muslim, and since that's his primary identifier, he had no place in any Western military.

There are an estimated 3500 Muslims in the US armed forces. That is a pool of 3500 people who feel that Islamic law is above any oath they can take to a secular organization. I'm sure not all of them are all that hard-core about it, but it's a risk factor that shouldn't be ignored.

Fifty years ago another ideology posed an existential risk to Western society, and it's adherents were ruthlessly expunged from anywhere sensitive, hell, from Hollywood even. Yes I'm talking about Communists. They too took their orders from a higher authority, in that case and time Moscow, and they would not have been tolerated within the armed forces.

Political correctness has a lot to do with this happening in the first place (there were previous complaints about his ideas) and will have a lot more to do with sanitizing and covering it up. He'll be another generic "lone gunman", and all of those soldiers will have died and been maimed without the benefit of any (re)awakening to the treachery that lurks within our societies.

Here's what Barack Hussein Obama had to say about the motivations of Nidal Hasan:

"This is a time of war. And yet these Americans did not die on a foreign field of battle," Obama said to a crowd estimated at about 15,000. "They were killed here, on American soil, in the heart of this great American community. It is this fact that makes the tragedy even more painful and even more incomprehensible."

Emphasis in the above is mine. I would be curious to know how many of those in attendance at the memorial service at Ft Hood find it so "incomprehensible". Diversity can bite my ass if this is what it leads to.