wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood
of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood,
2002-2004.
My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on
the post in family housing.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine,
or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors
and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our “Band
of Brothers and Sisters” can find solace and bond beyond just the
foxhole but as family units.
A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors
train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield
in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored
terrorism.
There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even
recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside
because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so
paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and
determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in
an Army post.
We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned
about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The
misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is
despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an
entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.
This is not a “man caused disaster”. It is what it is, an Islamic
jihadist attack.
We have seen this before in 2003 when a SGT Hasan of the 101st
Airborne Division (Air Assault) threw hand grenades and opened fire
into his Commanding Officer’s tent in
attempt of Albanian Muslims who sought to attack Ft Dix, NJ. Recently
we saw a young convert to Islam named Carlos Bledsoe travel to
receive terrorist training, and return to gun down two US Soldiers at
a
Islamic terrorist plot in
Base,
What have we done with all these prevalent trends? Nothing.
What we see are recalcitrant leaders who are refusing to confront the
issue, Islamic terrorist infiltration into
further into our Armed Services. Instead we have a multiculturalism
and diversity syndrome on steroids.
Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of
fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous
statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him
under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been
proof positive.
However, what we have is a typical liberal approach to find a victim,
not the 13 and 30 Soldiers and Civilian, but rather the poor shooter.
A shooter who we are told was a great American, who loved the Army and
serving his Nation and the Council on American Islamic Relations
(CAIR) stating that his actions had nothing to do with religious
belief.
We know that Major Hasan deliberately planned this episode; he did
give away his possessions. He stood atop a table in the confined space
of the
as the 9-11 terrorists and those we fight against overseas in the
and
No one in leadership seems willing to sound the alarm for the American
people; they are therefore complicit in any future attacks. Our
Congress should suspend the insidious action to vote on a preposterous
and unconstitutional healthcare bill and resolve the issue of
“protecting the American people”.
The recent incidents in
that we have an Islamic terrorism issue in
CAIR call me and try to issue a vanilla press statement; they are an
illegitimate terrorist associated organization which should be
disbanded.
We have
States, one right here in South Florida,
building churches and synagogues in
“Infidels” allowed travel to
So much for peaceful coexistence.
and convert young men into a virulent Wahabbist ideology….one
resulting in four individuals wanting to destroy synagogues in New
They are sponsoring textbooks which present Islamic centric
revisionist history in our schools.
We must recognize that there is an urgent need to separate the
theo-political radical Islamic ideology out of our American society.
We must begin to demand surveillance of suspected Imams and mosques
that are spreading hate and preaching the overthrow of our
Amendment, it is sedition and if done by an American treason.
There should not be some 30 Islamic terrorist training camps in
Religion. The Saudis are not our friends and any American political
figure who believes such is delusional.
When tolerance becomes a one way street it certainly leads to cultural
suicide. We are on that street. Liberals cannot be trusted to defend
our Republic, because their sympathies obviously lie with their
perceived victim, Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
I make no apologies for these words, and anyone angered by them,
please, go to Ft Hood and look into the eyes of the real victims. The
tragedy at Ft Hood
feelings of those there and on every military installation in the
world. Consider the feelings of the Warriors deployed into combat
zones who now are concerned that their loved ones at home are in a
combat zone.
Ft Hood suffered an Islamic jihadist attack, stop the denial, and
realize a simple point.
The reality of your enemy must become your own.
Steadfast and Loyal,
Lieutenant Colonel Allen B West (US Army, Ret)
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