Title: Video Shows Ft. Hood Shooter Major Hasan At "Homeland Security" Event Source:
[None] URL Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHe-o9lPco Published:Nov 8, 2009 Author:. Post Date:2009-11-08 20:08:13 by christine Keywords:None Views:600 Comments:43
What I find strange is that this man was employed to deal with the psychological problems of the most mentally battle scarred men returning form the Middle East.
Even expats who have civilian jobs over there in safe countries, however culturally attuned and tolerant, breathe a sigh of relief when they return home and are back in their own element, back on Western soil. No more prayer calls, no more gender segregation, and none of the thousand little daily reminders that you are not home and are in a place that for most Americans is strange and alien if not outright hostile.
Imagine some grunt who has been on multiple deployments, who has seen and done God-knows-what over there and now finds that he can't function in the world once he returns home. The Army puts him in the charge of some joker who runs around in a thobe and beanie and who has a history of trying to convert his patients.
You know, I ain't never been to war in Iraq or Afghanistan and I've never been in the Army, but I can tell you for sure that the guys under Hasan's care must have cussed out the government that sent them over there.
Everyone that has anything to do with anything Federal including and especially the military has a screw loose in this danged country is all I can say.
a. Imagine some grunt who has been on multiple deployments, who has seen and done God-knows-what over there and now finds that he can't function in the world once he returns home. The Army puts him in the charge of some joker who runs around in a robe and beanie and who has a history of trying to convert his patients. You know, I ain't never been to war in Iraq or Afghanistan and I've never been in the Army, but I can tell you for sure that the guys under Hasan's care must have cussed out the government that sent them over there.
b. Everyone that has anything to do with anything Federal including and especially the military has a screw loose in this danged country is all I can say.
a. Hasan's patients are not exactly clamoring to be re-assigned to another military shrink so they must be re-considering the military's "judgment" and whether FedGov's "free" care is worth it.
"As for the patients under Hasan's care, only a few have contacted hospital staff to continue their care, Kesling said."
b. The military wanted to get back its investment in his medical training come hell or high water. This Hasan thingie is a perfect example - albeit in the the extreme - of how gubment operates. Rather than dismiss someone who is not working out, they either transfer OR promote. "Employee termination" in gov't is an obsolete phrase. That's why we've got a culture of incompetence in gov't today and by golly, they're proud of it!
"When pressed by reporters, Kesling [Hasan's boss] revealed she had viewed some of Hasan's records from his previous assignment at the Maryland base.
"His evaluation reports said that he had some trouble in his residency fitting into his residency," Kesling said. "So we worked very hard to integrate him into our practice and integrated into our organization and he was doing very well."