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Fort Hood's 9/11

By RALPH PETERS

Last Updated: 2:50 PM, November 6, 2009

Posted: 1:36 PM, November 6, 2009

On Thursday afternoon, a radicalized Muslim US Army officer shouting "Allahu
Akbar!" committed the worst act of terror on American soil since 9/11. And
no one wants to call it an act of terror or associate it with Islam.

What cowards we are. Political correctness killed those patriotic Americans
at Ft. Hood as surely as the Islamist gunman did. And the media treat it
like a case of non-denominational shoplifting.

This was a terrorist act. When an extremist plans and executes a murderous
plot against our unarmed soldiers to protest our efforts to counter Islamist
fanatics, it's an act of terror. Period.

When the terrorist posts anti-American hate-speech on the Web; apparently
praises suicide bombers and uses his own name; loudly criticizes US
policies; argues (as a psychiatrist, no less) with his military patients
over the worth of their sacrifices; refuses, in the name of Islam, to be
photographed with female colleagues; lists his nationality as "Palestinian"
in a Muslim spouse-matching program, and parades around central Texas in a
fundamentalist playsuit - well, it only seems fair to call this terrorist an
"Islamist terrorist."

But the president won't. Despite his promise to get to all the facts.
Because there's no such thing as "Islamist terrorism" in ObamaWorld.

And the Army won't. Because its senior leaders are so sick with political
correctness that pandering to America-haters is safer than calling terrorism
"terrorism."

And the media won't. Because they have more interest in the shooter than in
our troops - despite their crocodile tears.

Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan planned this terrorist attack and executed it in cold
blood. The resulting massacre was the first tragedy. The second was that he
wasn't killed on the spot.

Hasan survived. Now the rest of us will have to foot his massive medical
bills. Activist lawyers will get involved, claiming "harassment" drove him
temporarily insane. There'll be no end of trial delays. At best, taxpayer
dollars will fund his prison lifestyle for decades to come, since our
politically correct Army leadership wouldn't dare pursue or carry out the
death penalty.

Maj. Hasan will be a hero to Islamist terrorists abroad and their
sympathizers here. While US Muslim organizations decry his acts publicly,
Hasan will be praised privately. And he'll have the last laugh.

But Hasan isn't the sole guilty party. The US Army's unforgivable political
correctness is also to blame for the casualties at Ft. Hood.

Given the myriad warning signs, it's appalling that no action was taken
against a man apparently known to praise suicide bombers and openly damn US
policy. But no officer in his chain of command, either at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center or at Ft. Hood, had the guts to take meaningful action
against a dysfunctional soldier and an incompetent doctor.

Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would've been gone with the
simoon. But officers fear charges of discrimination when faced with
misconduct among protected minorities.

Now 12 soldiers and a security guard lie dead. 31 soldiers were wounded, 28
of them seriously. If heads don't roll in this maggot's chain of command,
the Army will have shamed itself beyond moral redemption.

There's another important issue, too. How could the Army allow an obviously
incompetent and dysfunctional psychiatrist to treat our troubled soldiers
returning from war? An Islamist whacko is counseled for arguing with
veterans who've been assigned to his care? And he's not removed from duty?
What planet does the Army live on?

For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I'm ashamed of its
dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who
was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than
doing something about him.

Get ready for the apologias. We've already heard from the terrorist's family
that "he's a good American." In their world, maybe he is.

But when do we, the American public, knock off the PC nonsense?

A disgruntled Muslim soldier murdered his officers way back in 2003, in
Kuwait, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Recently? An American mullah
shoots it out with the feds in Detroit. A Muslim fanatic attacks an Arkansas
recruiting station. A Muslim media owner, after playing the peace card,
beheads his wife. A Muslim father runs over his daughter because she's
becoming too Westernized.

Muslim terrorist wannabes are busted again and again. And we're assured that
"Islam's a religion of peace."

I guarantee you that the Obama administration's non-response to the Ft. Hood
attack will mock the memory of our dead.

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Ralph Peters' latest novel is "The War After Armageddon."

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