I guess you might just say MAJ Hassan has demonstrated he is a conscientious objector to the entire purpose of the US Military, and his own oath of office, but…he’s at best “not guilty,” and, in my estimation of “worst,” just crazy. Not his fault. Not accountable. Just, you know, not down with the program.

First off, before contrasting begins, he is doing the opposite of what the military demands, because it only can work this way: Accountability.

Now, if he objected to the system, there were ways to deal with getting released from his obligations to support and defend The Constitution of The United States, had he done just a small bit of research. He could have requested a CO admin separation. Seen it done, and the good news, if the guy never came back to shoot us, but, he had no quals about becoming a much higher paid contractor, maintaining the same weapons systems without a uniform on. Another long story.

Now, I dig back in history to May 5th, 1945 for the basic culmination of a story of another man, a US Citizen, who believed his alliengance was to his God first, and his country second. He is a man of nobility in character, humble and remained true to his convictions across his lifetime, to his death in March, 2006: Cpl Desmond T. Doss, US Army.

The true story of the life and character of CPL Doss is all not contained in the post. The core of why he did what he did, to be awarded a Congressional Medal of Honor on May 5th, 1945 is not in the linked post, but in the documentary of his life, in the movie about him. Desmond Doss was extensively interviewed, as were several of the men he served with, including, the very officer who tried to have his discharged from the Army under a Section 8 separation.

In the movie “The Conscientious Objector,” Desmond Doss himself explains how he witnessed a fight between his parents when he was young, and had to stop his father from using a gun. from that moment forward, he took to heart the 6th Commandment: “Thou Shall Not Murder.” When WWII came along and he enlisted, he clearly indicated he was a CO and would not even touch a weapon. He did not. He asked to be a medic. He was refused and put in a CO Battalion. He asked to transfer. They send him to a line company as an infantryman, and he refused to handle any weapons. Finally, after much verbal and even physical abuse, they let him become a medic Along the way, his company commander tried to get him kicked out of the Army, stating he was crazy. Desmond said he told the board deciding his fate that to accept that condition, he would have to deny the message of his God, and therefore, he would have to call God crazy. He refused. They kept him in.

On the Meada escarpment, also called “Hacksaw Ridge,” he repeatedly went out into the battle to recover, treat and then lower men down a 400 foot cliff using a rope. They first tired to put that he had saved 150 men that day and he refused, saying that would have been impossible, yet almost every man in his company had become a casualty that day and he was the medic on scene. He compromised and let them put 75 men in the CMOH citation.

That’s how people object to things that conflict between their God and their Government, not by wearing the uniform, taking the check, then shooting your fellow soldiers, to make a point about how your god feels.

So, there you have it. The records of CPL Doss and MAJ Hassan are now open for the inspection and determination of history.

One man was honorble, the other one, well…I’d have to say he’s going to have to call his god crazy, or his defense has no merit, save that of a just plain sick individual. Somehow, he acted normally enough to plan out this attack, to include preparing himself for the most likely outcome of death b distributing his belongings and cleaning out his apartment. He had a plan.

I will presume, a person who has not studied history well, or has been taught only history from a perspective of “America the Evil,” does not fully appreciate there are many parties involved in the events that took place in Dresden during WWII, not merely US airmen dropping incendiary bombs.

I also presume, that he filters out that their own actions, regardless of who they are now, directly resulted in what came to their doorsteps. Between WWI and WWII, America was strongly isolationist. But, if you are looking for a scapegoat, it was one of President Obama’s heroes, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt that deftly maneuvered us closer to entering the conflict using the Lend Lease Program for England and Russia, and a variety of interesting operations that put US Navy and US Coast Guard ships in harms way escorting convoys. The mood of the Nation, despite the many year long conflicts in both Europe and China, and the massive expansion of the Japanese control of the Pacific Islands, we sat to the sidelines and went about our “normal” lives.

Somehow, in this day and age, declaring you were a victim seems to be all the rage, and a defense against anti-social behavior, at a personal and national level. The President of the United States must believe those victims need our heart felt apology, and we need nothing from them.

Like what is happening all across our nation, the abrogation of personal responsibility is the accepted manner in which to live life. Walk away from a mortgage you never should have signed on for, for one torpical example. Let the Government coddle you and keep a roof over your head, and food on your table, and a “volunteer” job to go to daily.

Now, if one was to be fair and balanced, how might these questions be answered:

Who stand from the Saudi Arabian Kingdom and apologize to the African nations and the ancestors of the slaves of the 1600s, 1700, and 1800s?
Who from Japan will go to Nanking and apologize to the Chinese?
Who from Germany will go to Warsaw and apologize to the Poles?
Who from Japan will travel to Malaysia and Singapore and Myanmar and Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia and apologize to the people of those countries?
Who from Germany will go to Volgograd and apologize to the Russians?
Who from Germany will go to Paris and apologize to the French?
Who from Germany will travel to Morocco and Egypt and Libya and apologize to the Allied Forces?
Who from Germany will go to London and apologize to the English for the Blitz?
Who from Japan will travel to Pearl Harbor and apologize to the US military?
Who from Germany will travel to Rome and apologize to the Italians?
Who from Germany will come to Normandy and apologize to the Americans, the French, the English, the Poles, and all the nations warriors who came to take back their lands?
Who will come from North Korea to Seoul and apologize to the South Koreans?
Who will come from Beijing to Seoul and apologize to the South Koreans?
Who will come from Moscow to Seoul and apologize to the South Koreans?
Who will come from Hanoi to Saigon and apologize to their countrymen?
Who will come from Hanoi to Cambodia and Laos and apologize for the aftermath of the US involvement in SE Asia?
Who will come from Hanoi to a VFW convention and apologize for the treatment of the POWS in their custody?
Who from Iraq will come to Kuwait City and apologize to the Kuwaitis?
Who will come to New York City and Arlington, VA and Shanksville, PA and apologize to the families of the 9/11/2001 victims?
Who from Pakistan will go to Mumbai and apologize to the Indians?
Who will come from Germany to Jerusalem and apologize to the Jewish people?
Who from Turkey will stand and apologize to the Armenians?
Who from Iraq and Iran will come and stand at Arlington National Cemetery and apologize to the families of those men and women in uniform who were killed as a result of their hate crimes? After all, they hated us because we were “Infidels” and I believe that would come under the Hate Crimes legislation in this country, if someone were to speak a religious epitaph during the commission of a murder.

I know the list is woefully short of all the apologizes necessary, in this day and time, for all the bad behavior, that has resulted in death and destruction, at the hands of tyrants.

Mr. President: I know we have done things in this Nation, that are worthy of contemplation for the immoral paths taken, but we are not the source of all evil in the world, nor in all of history. It was this society that threw off the mantle of a monarch that has given you this platform to speak and to be part of the legacy that has freed peoples and helped along the cause of greater worldwide prosperity since its inception. If this is unsettling to you, you are in the wrong job, and maybe there is another land that would welcome a leader who is disgusted by their own historical behavior, so much so, he will make a point to point it out at every opportunity., and even travel abroad at the people’s expense to trumpet that feeling in large and small venues.

If you, Mr. President, are using this opportunity to set a worldwide tone of reconciliation, then you need to place that standard in the open, and look other country’s leaders in the eye and say: “We (not “I”) have done our (not “my”) part, now I expect the same from you and your people.”

Somehow, I doubt this is your plan.

Somehow, I expect you to tell the world how mean we have been through out our 232+ year history, and why they should not respect us any longer, by your words and actions.

Mr. President: One president in our history went to Berlin, Germany to demand the end of tyranny. Millions are free as a result of that speech. I presume you go there to endorse tyrannical behavior, not call it out, and I will be listening to your words in your important speech in Dresden. President John F Kennedy did not shy from facing down tyranny, either, in Berlin, as did President Reagan.

And, when you’re done with that, I’m sure the D-Day visit shall hold for us more degrading rhetoric at the hands of you and your speech writers. I’m projecting this outcome, based on your G20 World Apology I Tour results.

The President of the United States, will hand over dozens photographs of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan to the ACLU, based on a long legal battle. According to the link, these aren’t even as bad as the Abu Gharib photos, but show there was more abuse than disclosed to the public.

You’d think, for the sake of the Muslims, who rioted and even killed some of their own overseas, when they heard, falsely as it turned out, that a Koran was flushed down a toilet. Forgetting Americans will be endangered, foreigners may die in the resulting riots. I this not out of the realm of reason, based on the last time such things were brought to light by the MSM, to postulate that this is a likely outcome, is it?

The irony off this long process, that was politicized before, is that the US Army, with a brave soldier ratting out the morons at Abu Gharib, were the ones to disclose it was going on at all. The MSM then ran with it, and used it as a blunt instrument against President Bush. Regardless of the fact that the military was busy taking care of their bad actors, it was presented to the nation and the World as though this was a common methodology of our service members, a charge that was completely false.

It strikes me as a double jeopardy like issue, where the military has taken these photos in as evidence, and most likely has handled the disciplinary actions in each case. Now, the stories will be published and the “trial” on the media pages and screens, and all across the ‘net will begin in earnest, but, these not being valid legal venues, there will be no stopping them.

The outcome? If you can read this, then you are well aware of the dark strain Abu Gharib left and how then the implication became a reason to not trust the Bush Administration in any matter of detainment, regardless of the evidence that pointed towards containment of the enemy.

So, where do I see this getting us? To a bad place. Some days I just feel like packing it in, but what country is left, that is not overrun by the urge to bend over to the lawyers or the terrorists and let them have their way. As far as I know, there is none left. I can’t afford an island of my own, or the private army/navy to defend it, so, I guess I’m screwed.

I can only figure the President is blinded by his ambition. I may be way off the mark, but the lower his popularity numbers sink, the more this kind of reporting floats up, with the only seeming rationale is to satiate his left left wing crowd….so they will settle down.

Short sited at best, dangerous at the worst. On top of that, will this make “them” make hate us more or less? I say more, but The One will stand will hold them high, and declare “This was not on my watch! Don’t blame me, I’m the one showing you how horrible the American military and intelligence systems are, and what they do behind closed doors.” It will put all of us at risk, at one level or another. It will make military members second guess every act, if they must come in contact with detainees. It will cause good men and women to leave their jobs, so they are not abused at the whim of a capricious administration, bent on saying “It’s not I!” who caused this, when, in fact, he is sowing the seeds of the next action against American citizens and our military.

What good can come of this? None. What has happened? The guilty parties have been taken care of, now, the world will be shown a whole new set of pictures they can use as an excuse for their hatred.

And the irony of it all, is even our own citizens and “Western” media can’t seem to do more than yawn when the people’s head were rolling in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan, and Thailand and the Philippines, and even recently here, in the United States proper. Our soldiers can have a dog bark at someone and make them stand naked, and be reviled, yet a terrorist can actually chant “God is Great” while decapitating another human being, and somehow, it is wished away as a justifiable act.

We have lost a critical thinking skill: Logic, which would establish a real proportionality. I fear we shall not be able to retrieve this before it is too late.

I am not in favor of any mistreatment, but I am not in favor of the President taking all matters into his own hands, disregarding the very military and US legal systems that have served this Nation well over 200 plus years. His action do just that.

All I can say: He is not looking out for justice, he is looking forward to punishing anyone connected to his political opposition.

Consider this quote from the article linked above:

“My sense is the president was trying to please a lot of audiences at one time and that over the last (week) he has totally failed to put the mind of the intelligence community at ease,” said Mark Lowenthal, a former senior adviser to CIA Director George J. Tenet. “He is going to end up with a national clandestine service that will not be willing to do anything because they feel he will not be there for them when they need him.”

Call to Action: Bombard your representatives, once again, for they need to be the check in the system, or we are truly lost for a lack of leadership where we must have it under these circumstances.

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