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military’s just-released address into the Fort Hood shootings spends 86 pages account various slipups by Army admiral but not once mentions Major Nidal Hasan by name or alike discusses whether the killings may have had anything to do with the suspect’s view of his Muslim faith. The U.S. And as Congress opens two days of hearings on Wednesday into the Pentagon probe of the Nov. 5 advance that left 13 dead, lawmakers want explanations for that omission.

John Lehman, a affiliate of the 9/11 commission and Navy Secretary during the Reagan Administration, says a abhorrence to cause offense by citing Hasan’s view of his Muslim faith and the U.S. The Pentagon report’s silence on Islamic extremism “shows you how acutely entrenched the values of political definiteness have become,” he told TIME on Tuesday. military’s activities in Muslim countries as a possible trigger for his declared rampage reflects a problem that has gotten worse in the 40 years that Lehman has spent in and around the U.S. military. “It’s absolutely getting worse, and is now so ingrained that people no best smirk back it happens.”.

In midcareer, they study the adverse between capabilities and intentions, which is why they aren’t afraid of a British nuclear weapon but do fear the prospect of Iran getting one. The apparent abridgement of curiosity into what allegedly collection Hasan to kill isn’t in keeping with the military’s ethos; it’s a remarkable omission for the U.S. armed forces, whose adolescent admiral are generally ordered to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War with its command to apperceive your enemy.

Yet the leaders of the two-month Pentagon review, above Army Secretary Togo West and the Navy’s onetime top admiral, Vernon Clark, told reporters last week that they didn’t drill bottomward into Hasan’s motives. Both are declining interview requests before their aldermanic testimony, a Pentagon spokesman said. Added Clark: “We certainly do not cite a accurate group.” Part of their reticence, they said, was to avoid running afoul of the criminal probe of Hasan that is now under way. “Our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations,” West said.

But without a motive, there would have been no murder. Those who served alongside Hasan acquisition the Pentagon review wanting. Hasan wore his radical Islamic faith and its jihadist tendencies in the same way he wore his Army uniform. “Political definiteness has brainwashed us to the point that we no best understand our heritage and cannot admit who, or what, the adversary stands for.”. He allegedly proselytized within the ranks, spoke out against the wars his Army was waging in Muslim countries and shouted “Allahu akbar” (God is great) as he gunned bottomward his fellow soldiers. “The address demonstrates that we are unwilling to analyze and confront the real adversary of political Islam,” says a above aggressive colleague of Hasan, speaking privately because he was ordered not to talk about the case.

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