The warning signs were there for the military to see.

The military ignored those signs, because the American People demanded that the military ignore them. It is bad to be judgmental, regarding Islam and its participants, particularly following September 11th of 2001.

It’s no more complicated than that.

The military was too timid, lacking candor, enveloped in fear.

Americans are, by and large, Good People. But along with that they are also isolated, gullible, vacuous, ill-educated, ignorant and, dare I say it, arrogant in their jejune views. Predominantly, they don’t wish to acknowledge that there is actual Evil in the world, that it prospers, that it is enjoyable, that it can’t be reasoned- and/or negotiated-with, that some persons actively choose it, that some persons embrace it and cannot be “changed.”

Was the writing not on the wall? Read:

Army massacre fiend Nidal Malik Hasan attended a Virginia mosque at the same time as two of the 9/11 hijackers — and the FBI is now investigating whether there is a connection between the men, an official confirmed yesterday.

Maj. Hasan — the Army psychiatrist accused of fatally shooting 13 people and wounding 29 others at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday — had held his mother’s funeral at the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., in May 2001.

The mosque’s imam at the time was the ultraradical Anwar Aulaqi, thought to have ties to Osama bin Laden.

And yet, thirteen lives were lost and many more lives were changed or destroyed.

Criminal profiling is completely appropriate, be it via ethnicity, height, weight, clothing, vehicle, modus operandi, culture or religion.

This is nothing more than common sense — except that sense, these days, is much less than common.

Joe Lieberman actually deigned to state the obvious:

But clearly, the massacre might have been an act of terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said yesterday.

“I want to say very quickly we don’t know enough to say now, but there are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act,” Lieberman told “Fox News Sunday.”

Lieberman as Independent: Evil. Fox News: Evil.

Imagine that. Looks like Leftists do have a sense of Evil — only massively biased.

Apparently Hasan tried to contact al Qaeda (The Base).

It was also confirmed, as I wrote earlier, that Hasan possessed a FN FiveseveN 5.7mm handgun. He also carried a .357 magnum revolver.

Confirming my thoughts, Bob Weir writes in the American Thinker:

The brutal massacre of thirteen unarmed soldiers and the wounding of dozens more at Fort Hood, Texas is another terrorist act on American soil that could have been prevented if not for an insidious cloud of political correctness that has taken this country hostage.

The victims of this horrific tragedy died at the hands of an enemy masquerading as a friend.

Those soldiers had every reason to believe they were safe on an army base, surrounded by their patriotic brothers and sisters. They volunteered to serve their country, knowing full well that they might lose their lives on a battlefield in a foreign land.

Could any of them have imagined that the end would come at the hands of a Muslim extremist wearing the uniform of an Army Major?

Again, in my opinon, Mr Weir “states the obvious” in terms of our national reaction to various incidents regarding Islam.

Further, Selwyn Duke — again, at American Thinker — asks:

We now know that Major Hasan did not hide his true loyalties and often expressed Islamist sentiments. For example, the Telegraph quotes former Hasan colleague Col. Terry Lee as saying, “[Hasan] was making outlandish comments condemning our foreign policy and claimed Muslims had the right to rise up and attack Americans”; that Hasan admitted to being “happy” upon learning of the Muslim who killed a soldier at an Arkansas military recruitment center; and that he once said, “maybe people should strap bombs on themselves and go to Times Square.”

Chron.com reports that Hasan had created “Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats,” and that “one of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.”

Given this, was it really shocking when Hasan walked among the “aggressors” and yelled Allahu Akbar before punctuating his story with a burst of violence?

No. This should not come as a shock.

Unless. Of course. You exist as a country that quakes in fear of Reality.

Mr Duke continues with his vein of Common Sense:

Why was an obvious jihadist in our military in the first place, let alone promoted to major?

Well, the question has already been answered. We have become a sick society, where fantasies are favored and reality is called “racist.” If there were an officer of Japanese descent in our military during WWII, he wouldn’t have lasted til the next day’s rising sun if he had expressed pro-Imperial Japanese sentiments. But that was then, when America was America, before she was sacrificed on the altar of the leftist dystopia in utopian clothing.

Furthermore, only a sick society would tolerate a far more dangerous fifth column: those traitors who, as Cicero said 2,000 years ago, appear not as traitors, who speak in accents familiar to their victims, who wear their victims’ face and use their arguments.

I speak of those who wasted no time painting Hasan as a victim: writers such as Kenyon Wallace, who only emphasized the claim that the major was “harassed” by colleagues and theorized that post-traumatic stress disorder might have influenced this man who never saw a firefight until he started one at Fort Hood.

What bunk. Sure, Hasan got into heated arguments with fellow officers and was called names.

But that’s not called harassment. Harassment is when you disgorge the enemy’s rhetoric with a violent tongue. It’s called a defense of God, country, and culture. It’s called pushing back when pushed.

Our military simply collapsed. Because it feared. It was frightened. And it felt unsupported.

And WE, as Americans, MADE it frightened.

Did you hear or read, from our uncurious, do-nothing national media, this:

PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail
Friday, November 06, 2009

Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail.

The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.

In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.”

To include:

And finally:

Ah yes, that good ol’ American Free ObamaKare. No penalties; no cares; no worries.

No freedom.

If there is one thing conspicuous about the media coverage of the recent killings at Fort Hood in Texas, it’s that they and most every “official” channel have gone out of their way to purposely not link Islam or terrorism to the event. The White House concurs. The common thread is that “this has nothing to do with Islam.”

It should be noted that Sgt. Munley (left, above) faced a military shooter who, unbeknownst to her at the time, carried a FN FiveseveN autopistol, loaded with 20-round mags of 5.7X28mm. The 5.7mm round is rather rare in the handgun world; not a commonly encountered calibre. It is a very high velocity handgun round said to have the capability to penetrate the military PASGT helmet and defeat most all Kevlar/composite vests, military and civilian.