Posted by
Steve on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:16:29 PM
It seems that Barack Obama has heard enough criticism of his inappropriate behavior after the shootings at Ft. Hood. He went to an event honoring Indians and gave some light hearted remarks including some “shout outs” to people in attendance before commenting on the Ft. Hood shootings. To call his behavior insensitive would be to give the word insensitive a bad name. They were highly objectionable to anyone who had a loved one involved in the Ft. Hood events or that cared about what happened at Ft. Hood. Obama’s remarks since then have not been much better. They have been trying to make Islam seem like just an incidental part of the equation. They also are trying to portray the military as having problems that caused the event.
Today, Barack Obama is attending a memorial service for those killed at Ft. Hood. He is also expected to give a few remarks about the event. Hopefully, they will show a little more sensitivity than what he has displayed since the shootings occurred last week.
While Obama has been digging a hole in the shooting situation, more information has been coming out. None of it makes the FBI, CIA or US military look very good. We obviously knew of his ties to Al Qaeda for some time. Nobody was willing to take any action because of the potential backlash involving a Muslim. During the time between 9/11/01 and the shooting Major Hasan received a promotion to Major. This promotion occurred despite the number of negative reports that were out regarding his character and behavior. The people that rubber stamped his promotion have some questions to answer as well. How could an officer who was so obviously not performing well receive a promotion?
Major Hasan even gave a talk to Walter Reed Hospital officials where he outlined how the military should treat Muslim soldiers when fighting a Muslim foe. For this talk, Major Hasan was sent to Ft. Hood in a lower position.
The talk after 9/11/01 was that we needed to connect the dots in regards to potential terrorist activities. Major Hasan’s personnel file should have sent out so many red flags that the number of red flags available for other things would be limited. Despite the number of red flags in this case, nobody acted on them.
There are a number of people and groups that have to answer questions in this matter. We knew so much about what he was doing, yet nobody was willing to step up and stop him. Because nobody was willing to step up, we now have dead soldiers at Ft. Hood. The situation could have been worse, but for the brave woman who stood in his way.
The lesson to take from these shootings is this, that guns stop people from killing people. If the police officer who stopped the killer from his task had not been armed, he would have continued until he ran out of ammunition. He had a lot of ammunition with him that day. People that believe in gun control will take the message that we need to remove guns from people that obey the law. That just means it will be easier for these killers to kill more people. There will not be anyone there to stop them with a gun. The message should be to allow people to carry concealed weapons if they are trained in their use. That message was almost lost in Arizona. It was saved and now we have armed guards on duty on each college campus. Guns are also allowed if the concealed carry person notifies the security department that they carry a gun. Now the college is much safer than they were before. Those that believe in gun control were expecting a Wild West shootout every day. In the time since the law was passed there has not been a single incident involving guns on any campus in our district. That shows how valuable that law really is.