I think the world is missing something about Dr. Nidal Hasan.
He was an intelligent, highly-educated officer in the finest military on the planet.
He was a human being that was subjected to such horrific stress that it fractured his three great oaths……to al-Islam, to medicine, and to his country.
The stress of being deployed to a profoundly unjust war that exists only as a face-saver for moronic WEC proselytizing and meddling.
That broke him.
Perhaps his agony can at least provoke an honest discussion of why we are still in Iraq and what we should do in Afghanistan.
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Shams al-Nahar
aziz 8:12 pm on November 8, 2009 Permalink |
it is a tragedy, but the stresses upon him were hardly unique to the Iraq war. It could have been any war.
Shams al-Nahar 8:14 pm on November 8, 2009 Permalink |
No….they were unique my habbibi.
He listened day after day to soldiers with PTSD, to soldiers on suicide watch, to conscientious objectors …..he was saturated in horror war-porn.
aziz 8:18 pm on November 8, 2009 Permalink |
again, PTSD or war porn is not unique to the Iraq war. The same story could have happened ater Vietnam.
Shams al-Nahar 8:19 pm on November 8, 2009 Permalink |
So?
I dont get your point.
And muslims here……are so worried about “backlash” and “image”…..it broke him.
He was a human being and it broke him.
The horror broke him.
aziz 8:36 am on November 9, 2009 Permalink
my point is that this tragedy has enough dimensions without trying to shoehorn another in.
Shams al-Nahar 8:35 pm on November 8, 2009 Permalink |
Perhaps the US intrusion into Viet Nam was only a pole to prop up the tent long enough for the french colonials to bug out, but it was a validated war……..not imposed as war of choice by a WEC president as part of his Gog/Magog fantasy.
aziz 8:44 am on November 9, 2009 Permalink
ill disagree with you on that one too. There was even less moral and strategic justification for Vietnam than there was for Iraq. And complicity for vietnam rests even more heavily on both political parties than Iraq does.
shams 12:10 pm on November 9, 2009 Permalink
Ok…..I’ll accept that you right about that.
The more I consider the cultural harbingers…like contemporary music…….the more analogy I see.
21 Guns won VMA tune of the year.
I predict Afghanistan is going to result in an even more humilating withdrawal….and the people that dying in Iraq right now are only dying to give cover to the calumny that the Surge “worked”.
plimfix 2:59 am on November 9, 2009 Permalink |
“The same story could have happened after Vietnam.” – illuminating comparison.
shams 7:33 am on November 9, 2009 Permalink |
It did happen in My Lai.
I guess My Lai was more like the Iraqi Rape Squad, though.