Weak Dick <http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/06/weak-dick/>It's late, and I'm tired and enduringly appalled -- not to mention outraged -- by the vicious murders committed upon US soldiers by a man whose paid work it was to care for them. It may not help that I'm fortified by an evening's dose of Hendricks <http://www.hendricksgin.com/us/about/index.asp> and tonic, with just a slice of cucumber in it, as is the custom. Color it truth serum. But it's this profile <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0OrWS8lBtNg> in Bloomberg that set me off: Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 others at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas, regularly described the war on terror as "a war against Islam," according to a doctor who was in a graduate program with him. To the extent that radical Islamic terrorists constitute a murderous threat to innocent Americans, Hasan had it exactly right. To the extent that the vast majority of Muslims want only to live their lives in peace, pay their taxes, send their kids to college and mow their lawns he had it exactly wrong. It's a little more than ironic that Hasan became that which he believed others took him for -- a weak dick coward more willing to gun down unarmed American soldiers than care for them in a combat zone. Perhaps if Hasan had been willing to sacrifice his principles just a smidge and marry a nice Muslim girl who would be happy enough to raise his children for him but didn't want to sit in the back room under a burkha like chattel, he'd have found more reasons for living than killing. Perhaps. Of course, finding that perfect woman would have eventually resulted in having to, you know: Get dirty with the fiddly bits. With a /woman/. Far better to stew in your resentments. While studying for a masters degree in public health in 2007, Hasan used a presentation for an environmental health class to argue that Muslims were being targeted by the U.S. anti-terror campaign, said Val Finnell, a classmate. Not all of them. Just the ones who had been coddled by the tax payers through their master's and doctoral level educations and payed that kindness back by going on shooting sprees against unarmed innocents. "He was very vocal about the war, very upfront about being a Muslim first and an American second," said Finnell, 41, a preventive medicine doctor in Los Angeles, in an interview today. "He was always concerned that Muslims in the military were being persecuted." I'd say the major found what he was looking for, and in doing so, became what other people had reasonably feared: A Muslim first, and an American second. That's going to be a problem in the US Army, especially if the one believing it also holds the notion that the war on terror is a war against his faith. Hasan, 39, opened fire on fellow soldiers with two handguns at the Fort Hood Army Base yesterday before he was shot several times, Lieutenant General Robert Cone, the base commander, told reporters. Military officials and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are probing what triggered the attack by the physician at a crowded medical processing center on the base. Hmm. What could it have been? An inflated sense of aggrieved self-worth enabled by a toxic strain of a faith that teaches humility before God -- fair enough, as far as it goes -- but also an inherited right to supremacy above those who do not share that faith? I'm just spit-balling here. Don't want to "jump to conclusions." Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Texas Republican, said she was told by Fort Hood authorities the suspect was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan and had been "very upset and angry" in the past few days. Because serving one's country in a time of war might mean, you know: Hardship. Weak. Dick. Licensed Physician The Virginia Board of Medicine lists Hasan as a licensed physician. He received his medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2003. He completed a residency in psychiatry at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington in 2007 and a fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry in 2009. Hasan was getting his masters degree in public health in 2007 and 2008 at the Uniformed Services University as part of his fellowship, said Bill Bester, vice president for external affairs at the school. Bester said he was unaware of comments Hasan may have made during the program. Finnell said he remembered Hasan "vividly" and said of the shooting: "I'm not surprised, based on the things he said in the past. I'm shocked that it happened, but not surprised." In conversations, students challenged Hasan on his statements and he would become "visibly upset, sweaty, nervous," Finnell said. Because not everyone accepted his magisterial superiority, the sublime perfection that was Hasan! The picture that emerges is not one of a persecuted minority, but a man with a severe case of narcissistic personality disorder <http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/5/15/19332/5961>. If you can't win the argument of your self-proclaimed superiority on merits, gun some people down. Unarmed people, of a preference. That'll show 'em. Toward the end of the program, in 2008, Hasan gave a presentation that was billed as a survey of the climate for Muslims who serve in the U.S. military, Finnell said. "It wasn't really very objective," Finnell said. "It was like he was trying to prove a point." Which was essentially impossible: Not everyone was willing to concede to Mr. Weak Dick Wannabe Terrorist Guy how perfectly wonderful and superior he was. It's not that most or even many Muslims want to cut infidel throats, for if they did it wouldn't be a question of if or whether and we'd be at it hammer and tongs with the outcome not in doubt. The problem is that there is found within the Koran -- the perfect, unalterable wisdom of a single, charismatic man as given to him by "God" -- sufficient reason to do so, if you go looking hard enough. Which, for weak dick nutters, is all too easy to do. We've loonies of our own in Christendom any have had the opportunity many times over the last two millenia to prove the fallen nature of man. But their crimes and misdemeanors are granted no borderline personality waivers by the Prince of Peace. "Love thy neighbor as thyself" was not footnoted, nor was it asterisked. At the end of the day it comes down to this: Our guy died for us. Theirs killed for them. November 6th, 2009 | Tags: Headlines <http://www.neptunuslex.com/tag/headlines/> | Category: Headlines <http://www.neptunuslex.com/category/headlines/> | 49 comments <http://www.neptunuslex.com/2009/11/06/weak-dick/#comments> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
