'Ft. Hood hero... and victims of stupidity and political correctness gone amok'

November 10, 2:35 PMOrlando Senior ExaminerTom Holbrook

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'Sgt. Kimberly Munley... she took three bullets while stopping the shooter.'
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At 1:23 pm, Thursday, November 5th, 2009, 911 calls began to flood the police command center on Ft. Hood, TX. Special Action Team (Army SWAT equivalent) member, 5 ft. 3 in Sgt. Kimberly Munley was in the area and showed up at 1:27 pm, with her partner Sgt. Mark Todd, assessed the situation as extremely critical and without waiting for backup squads to assist she immediately ran toward the shooter, Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and began shooting at him.

Maj. Hasan, who had already killed an unknown number of fellow soldiers, turned toward Sgt. Munley and began firing at her, striking her in the arm and both legs. She went down but continued firing at the home-bred terrorist. It is thought that she shot him multiple times before passing out from loss of blood.

Sgt. Mark Todd, a retired soldier now working as a civilian policeman, began shooting at Hasan who was now hiding behind a telephone pole, and downed the killer, kicked his gun away and cuffed him. Thankfully, Todd was not injured and Sgt Munley has come through surgery successfully and is not expected to have any lasting physical trauma from her wounds. Alas, none of this need not ever have happened.

Maj. Hasan’s victims were not so fortunate as Munley and Todd. 13 are dead and 38 wounded as a result of the greatest tragedy on a United States military installation in our country’s history. The citizen/terrorist has awakened from his surgery and has been talking to his doctors and his lawyer.

As stated above, none of this would have ever happened if our society’s laboring concern over ‘Political Correctness’ and ‘Racial Profiling’ had taken their proper place behind the need for security for our military and country in highly troubled times.

I like to think of myself as a sensitive person… sensitive to social issues; sensitive to different cultures; sensitive to the allowing of different religions the freedom to practice as they deem necessary; and sensitive to allow another person to stand on a soapbox in the square and tell us that the world is coming to an end next Tuesday.  it would make sense to me if six white, elderly men, with grey hair and glasses, were to hold up a bank and take off running down the street, In their search for the culprits, I would expect the police to stop all old grey haired geezers in the area that looked or acted like those being sought for the bank robbery. 

Subsequently, if the bank robbers were black males I would expect the police to stop those who were black and check them out.  That's not racial profiling that's good and logical police work.  If it were known that Islamic militants were planning a threat against our country I would expect police to seek them out among those who are in an Islamic community and/or had Islamic names.  That's not racial profiling, that's intelligent police work.

In Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan’s case, up to the time he opened fire with his machine pistol, with an extended ammo cartridge, and another weapon, to kill and/or wound as many Americans as he could, we had a man who had done everything he could to let those around him know he was a time-bomb ready to explode. Everyone could see the smoke from the fuse burning and, seemingly, because of fear of being labeled ‘politically incorrect’ or ‘racist’ no one reached out to extinguish the flame.

There were some military commanders who reported Maj. Hasan’s religious extremists views but it didn't go any further, purportedly because they said they were fearful of being called racists.  Maj Hasan's inflammatory comments, such as ‘Muslim suicide bombers are no different than our brave men who have thrown themselves on a grenade to save their comrades.’ This is a quote from Maj. Hasan’s very own blog page that you may see by clicking here. (If it hasn’t been pulled off by now.) Unfortunately, Maj Hasan fails to point out that his Muslim suicide bombers' objectives is to kill the innocent...  our brave soldiers’objective is to sacrifice their lives to save the innocent.

According to the Washington Post, while a senior resident at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, DC, Hasan told his Senior Doctors and other advisors that he felt Muslims in the U.S. Military should have allegiance to the Koran rather than the U.S. Constitution and other vitriolic comments in a Powerpoint presentation, yet it has been assumed that no one was notified or action taken.

In the Spring of this year Maj. Hasan also came to the attention of the FBI because he was suspected of collaborating with Al Queda. Still nothing was done to remove Maj. Hasan from his position as one who counseled American soldiers who were going off to war against our Muslim extremist enemies. Only one Senator I have heard, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, has even called this what it actually was… a home-grown terrorist attack on our shores. I am curious as to what our Administration’s and major media outlets response and coverage of this event will be, and then try not to be too surprised if suddenly Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan emerges from this tragedy as the victim.

Thankfully, Sgt Kimberly Munley will live and be able to go home to her 3 year old and 11-year-old daughters, and her Special Forces member husband. She and Todd are heroes, but thirteen American soldiers are needlessly dead and 38 wounded because of a failed political policy gone amok.

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