joequinn wrote:
The unanswered question: was the Ford Hood Incident (which, perhaps not accidentally, was staged on Guy Fawkes Day) a generalized military uprising against the Obama Administration, especially in light of his escalation of the fundamentally unwinable Afghan War?
Enquiring minds wanna know...
So many angles here again. I missed the possible significance of this happening on Guy Fawkes Day, and for that I feel somewhat negligent. This tragedy can certainly be used as an excuse for a purge of Muslums within the military, which would be a disaster, and it could include those who sympathize by defaullt because of the reality of pluralism within our culture. The 'politically correct' angle was almost immediately taken up, as well as avoided by various elements in the media.
Also I personally don't know how individuals in the military feel about the win-ability of the war in Afghanistan. I assume they would want some kind of satisfaction in contrast to what happened in Vietnam. And the similarities with that war are somewhat eerie. Especially when the Karzai government which NATO is trying to support is more concerned with its own self-aggrandizement than for the betterment of the country as a whole.
Like I said before I do believe Maj. Hasan 'snapped' fundamentally, but there's no reason to assume that someone didn't exploit his predisposition to 'snap'.