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Lessons of Fort Hood

45caliber Wrote: Nov 19, 2009 4:34 PM

An enemy combatant is someone in another army who is fighting your army. Hasan was in OUR army, not theirs. Further, FYI, terrorists and those WHO ARE NOT WEARING MILITARY UNIFORMS are not covered under the war treaties. You can do anything you like to them including standing them up against a wall and shoot them out of hand. An enemy combatant cannot be tried in a civilian court; he can only be tried in a military court for crimes against the war treaties or in a special war crimes trial through the UN. None of these people qualify, particularly Hasan. Per my previous note, he does qualify as a traitor, a mutineer, and a mass murderer.

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Lessons of Fort Hood

When a military officer participates in a war against his own country, that is high treason, and that is the charge that ought to be brought against Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan. But it's not going to happen.

Hasan should have been weeded out of the military long ago. There was abundant evidence that his allegiance was not to the United States -- the country that had given his immigrant family safe haven and provided him the opportunity to become, at taxpayer expense, a physician, an officer and a gentleman. It was...

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