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SOME SHORT NOTES ON KSM AND AMERICAN JUSTICE
Reynolds' grand re-appearnce will be when Obama announces 23,618 (or whatever) additional troops will be deployed to Afghanistan. It will be an "I told you so"-type partisan hack cocksucker reply. Moran probably will post how historic it all is despite the math. Meanwhile, soldiers will die needlessly as The Keystone Cops of National Security-USA Gallup dither under a guise of national security that is public polling.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 14.11.2009 @ 20:30
No doubt, Michael. Osama probably has died of old age while he has awaited Obama's decision. Dead folks have hard times with maps.
"Dithering?" Hell no. It is "polling." We all await your excuse.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 14.11.2009 @ 17:35
New Yorkers lined up in droves to vote for this unqualifed, incompetent F@@@. Sometimes you get what you want.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 14.11.2009 @ 17:13
This is another pathetic Moran dodge.
Based on this theory, America has needed a shrink since 1776. If only we could have made peace with those Loyalists...
Here's an idea: sometimes the people are right. Not to subscribe to populism, but it is a thought.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 13.11.2009 @ 19:09
MORE THAN POLITICAL CORRECTNESS OR VICTIMHOOD AT WORK IN FORT HOOD ATTACK
I want to make an addendum to what I wrote above. I don't dispute that political correctness may have informed some of the decisions not to discipline Hasan. Nonetheless, that still isn't the issue. The issue is the failure of the chain of command and failure to adhere to the UCMJ. The motive is irrelevant. We all will be better informed when, as ordered by Obama, the investigative files that were started on Hasan are thrown open. But at this stage, we can say at a minimum the CO and other officers failed to do what they were required.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 13.11.2009 @ 08:52
Terry: Since you claim to be a vet and I have no way to disprove it, I will have to accept your word. After today, I have no doubt Richard is because he is closer to the mark than you.
Hasan said disrespectful things about the country, the service, and his fellow soldiers (917.17). His conduct was unbecoming an officer, which he was due to his career (933.137). I could go on.
Now, you either are media-deprived or willfully ignorant. Hasan's conduct was brought to the attention of his CO after his bizarre, pro-al Qaeda comments at a mental health seminar. These were reduced to writing and disregarded. There's a start, readily available in the also-ignorant media. To claim that because the UCMJ also is "subject to abuse" is the only reason Hasan or his CO or superiors could have been, or be, prosecuted may not necessarily disprove you served, but it does prove you to be a goddamned, clueless idiot.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 12.11.2009 @ 17:19
Richard: Exactly. While I believe DADT bad policy, I still don't think it should be ignored because it is policy. Nonetheless, I would give it priority on the level as crackdowns on failure to attend "hygiene" seminars. Again, this isn't even about PC or bigotry, and Rick missed this obvious point by trying to make a larger one.
Terry: The fact you even posed the question has revealed gross ignorance of military affairs. Hasan's behavior was routinely brought to the attention of his superiors and they ignored it--a violation of the UCMJ on their part. As Richard pointed out, there is no need for new laws here. I don't have as much faith as he, though, that these officers will be properly disciplined for their failures. Hell, they are as likely to get new stripes and bling.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 12.11.2009 @ 16:28
As far as greater society you are correct, Reason. But the military has license to impose restrictions on such things as racism, religious extremism, and even adultery. If the UCMJ had been followed, Hasan might have been discharged and this tragedy might have been averted. The platitudes in the OP and comments do not have the same application to military life as to civilian life. I will be interested to see if the Obama Administration has the courage or even the awareness that action needs to be taken up Hasan's chain of command. My guess is that it does not. This isn't even a question about idiotic liberal PC. It is a question about failure to honor the Code.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 12.11.2009 @ 14:57
It might help if all you children read Korematsu v. United States (you included, Rick). Also bear in mind that Japanese-Americans did serve in the military while their families were in concentration camps, unbeknownst to them.
There is little question that if a white person had spouted off anti-black racist slogans the equivalent of what Hasan said about what he perceives as unbelievers, that cat would have been at a minimum discharged. To claim that Islam confers either evil or special privilege on a soldier is madness and contra Korematsu's holding. You all need also to understand the UCMJ proscribes Constitutional protections for airmen, soldiers and marines. All these slogans and cliches here sicken me at times.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 12.11.2009 @ 14:40
A RELATIVELY SHORT FOLLOWUP TO MY PJ MEDIA ARTICLE ON BI-PARTISANSHIP
The American Left, as embodied by the intellectually bankrupt and inherently corrupt Democratic Party, is incapable these days of risk-taking and courage. The expectation, from that quarter, would be the burden of entitlement reform ould be on the shoulders of the Right and/or Republicans, with the expectation that lead would be used as a club.
At some point, Rick, you either will have to come to terms with the fact that today's Democratic Party is a fragile coalition of amoral hypocrites and power-mad pols (personified by the despicable Pelosi and Reid) who use the idealistic and desperate as ash tray hearts, or you will continue to be seen as a dupe. Bipartisanship is overrated anyhow, and impossible with these people. It is either defeat them at the polls--and this is more than just blowing them away in the next mid-term election--or be subservient. They understand nothing else.
Comment Posted By obamathered On 10.11.2009 @ 22:56
