Problem Two: It’s hard to successfully kill unless one is trained. Unforgettably the kids at Columbine trained themselves with the help of video games. They would have been conspicuous practicing with real guns.

Maybe the solution is going back to the days of the draft where Seven Day Adventists were drafted IAO, not IA or CO, i.e., Conscientious Objector. Seven Day Adventist medics were praised as heroes.

Anyway people who don’t want to kill could join at the same pay as ordinary recruits without having to ever carry a gun, or go through basic training. And soldiers in the field op out quickly from direct combat simply by applying for IAO status.

By the way some Muslims hate both al Qaeda and Israel equally. Some could conscientiously only translate concerning al Qaeda, not Hamas the Taliban or any other Muslim group.

Anyway the US got to start really thinking instead of throwing money and troops around.

Perhaps we could ask China or the Saudi’s to try to mediate a cease-fire between us and the Taliban, or even Iran. Maybe the Taliban would agree to send any al Qaeda who was charged with a crime to an independent court for trial. Of course any remaining al Qaeda would just leave Afghanistan, but at least less troubled people Muslim or otherwise would consider suicide heroic, as would happen if al Qaeda got to try to claim that it won, with Cheney and Beck agreeing.

To change the subject we may end up with and overwhelming disaster, maybe even hunger since al Qaeda think it will bankrupt the US, like it believes, it did to the Soviets.

To simplify things, the army would have risked at the most one or two GI’s if it risked sending
Nidal Malik Hasan to Afghanistan without giving him intense new training.
See also, http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/20155

RichardKanePA

“Problem Two: It’s hard to successfully kill unless one is trained. Unforgettably the kids at Columbine trained themselves with the help of video games. They would have been conspicuous practicing with real guns.”…extract from post

Dr. Hasan wouldn’t be engaged with killing anyone in either Iraq or Afghanistan unless his medical facility were overrun by the enemy and he had to defend himself and those around him. He’s a psychiatrist which is somewhat fascinating in that his mission would be to help GI’s suffering from PTSD etc.; instead the doctor goes critical mass and he’s never been to those war zones.

This guy was evidently a ticking time bomb and there were signs concerning his instability leading up to this tragedy, but again, those that would have been aware of his issues didn’t take action to move him out of the military. He wanted out and even offerred to reimburse them for his medical education. They should have accommodated his request especially since he was demonstrating such instability as a field grade officer; ie, a Major.

We supposedly have a professional military and you’d think by now if they spot someone who’s not a team player along with posting comments on the www while in uniform that it was time to move him out with a General Discharge and be done with it.

There would be no guarantee that this man would not have gone critical within the civilian sector post discharge. As it’s said, “sh*t happens” and this is a prime example of such. : |

Carl Nemo **==

Do psychiatrists usually go nuts?

Most shrinks I’ve known are crazy, but far from shooting into the crowd nuts.

Did they think he was dead because now they say he’s alive when before they confirmed they shot one of the shooters dead. So he was shot 4 times and believed dead?

Stranger and stranger…

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/69310542.html

Carl Nemo **==

Funny that there’s never been a mass shooting at a gun show, as pointed out in this blog.

Nah, if he survives his wounds, the media along with prosecutors and the defense will turn this into a “Nancy Grace Show” spectacular.

I suspect he won’t get the death penalty due to the fear of how it will stir up Muslim’s regardless of his mass murderous crime. His execution would be perceived as a challenge to Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan; who now look upon him as a hero to their jihadist cause.

The defense will dredge up his possibly abused childhood along with how the military environment nurtured racism against Muslims and a host of other boohoo b.s. reasons as to why the guy flipped along with the need for mercy from the court by giving him life without parole.

Carl Nemo **==