Friday November 6, 2009, 5:37 pm
Yea, Fort Hood where an Arab American Psychiatrist, that means you are an M.D. and then a degree in Psychiatry, was in such conflict being a person who the U.S. has villainized and rediculed, if not passively with propaganda and hate speech against those "rag heads" and "terrorist godless heathens" or just the bad guys coming out of the mouths of his patience and other soldiers returning from the M.E., that he snapped to maintain his identity with the "enemy" and killed his "enemy" U.S. soldiers.

Nobody wins if everybody is losing.

Friday November 6, 2009, 6:52 pm
Casey very good valid point made....

Big Gorilly Hugs

Friday November 6, 2009, 9:18 pm
Thanks Terry

Friday November 6, 2009, 9:54 pm
I've had the dot head rag head sand n... comments thrown at me, but I won't kill anyone for that.
this is his country, these were his brothers in arms. we have every race and religion in the military dont we? racism will always be here, I honestly don't see any progress.
agrees with nobody wins if everybody is losing.
:/

Friday November 6, 2009, 9:55 pm
AND... ty T and Sgt. Munley

Saturday November 7, 2009, 1:37 am
Horrifying story - these rampage shooting stories looks like escalating in your Country. You need to find a way to stop this and find a way to live together.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 3:17 am
Thanks for the post lone, and thanks to Sgt. Munley and the first responders who have to make the judgement to use force in situations like this one. Hopefully, her injuries are not severe. She should be commended for stopping this man as quickly as she did. His targets were unarmed, fortunately, she was not.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 6:26 am
What a tradegy and sad story.... this sort of thing is so unnecessary... cannot fathom out why one would want to kill all of his close companions... was this another act of inflitration ... or did he truly snap.. but still not an excuse to kill,especially someone of his calibre and profession... so pleased that the officer was on the ball and quick thinking...

Saturday November 7, 2009, 10:45 am
This is the cost of war, the insanity of war, the dehumanization of war, that brilliant and well educated people can be pushed so far into the cycle of hate that they lose their respect for others because they don't feel respect for who they are.

Living together means not thinking with old traditional cultural ideas that make US return to US and THEM. Polarization and dehumanization go together. You can't create enemies without dehumanizing them and destroying part of yourself to do it.

How can religion deal with the contradictions of love and family being at the heart of their teachings, while supporting war and mass murdering and hate for the "enemy?" At that point "we are the enemy, " to ourselves, because we can no longer see our own mistakes and hate have caused the wars.

When soldiers come back from combat or war, they are changed and the brutality and dehumanization of war does not effect just the "enemy," these qualities make US "enemies" to our own identity and sense of morality. To justify this, some people become hate saturated to justify their crimes against others. Killing another person is a moral imperative in our every day life that we can not break. Nobody can kill another person without feeling huge conflicts with their morals, guilt, and shame that never ends. Killing changes your life and you can't go back to who you were before.

Imagine making war an International Crime. Because we are a family of people who grow through love, not hate and killing. Because we know killing is wrong. Because if we don't stop all acceptance for war, we are destroying our own side as much as our "enemies'. Because we are our own worst enemy when we sanction and rationalize or justify war.

Gandhi would say, "if you kill, part of you dies, and war is a threat to US all." This poor man who shot the victims at Fort Hood became true to his nature and identity. He knew that killing is wrong and he is a Muslim and heard other soldiers' accounts of killing Muslims, from the point of view that the U.S. is killing him or his family. His statement, by his horrible act is not one of vengeance or righteousness, but speaks to the victims of war.

You can't be part of US if you are part of the world we live in and US and THEM are the same. To achieve peace we must recognize religion is an art form, as is culture, language, and all our other creations that have divided US historically and celebrate our differences as qualities that truly enrich US when we understand and respect each other. Current cultures and religions divide with traditional biologically based drives telling US that we are better, righteous, and superior to THEM, and that old way of looking at ourselves and others is wrong. We are one species, the family of men and women trying to live the best we can. War has no place in this fact, except to highlight our dysfunctional traditional biologically based cultures and dysfunctional identities. The first step to finding a solution is to recognize and identify the problem.

Nobody wins if everybody is losing.

One World is the solution, identity, and path to ending war.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 11:35 am
This was an act of Terrorism plain & simple. He's a coward & it's just too bad he didn't die!!

Saturday November 7, 2009, 5:26 pm
Don't we all kill? When we are fruitful and mulitply, we destroy habitat which kills countless living animals. When we drive a nice fancy car we are condoning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. How many of us claim to be liberal and live Republican? We eat too much meat while a billion people starve - is it any wonder we have so many problems?

We want it all - and are destroying the planet to get it. I live on less - I am working on using less resources. I have been flexitarian since May, 1992, I bought my first CFLs years ago, I added UV reflective panels to my windows. My next big project is an electric bicycle.

We state the wars are caused by petroleum - and envy people with big cars. I believe we are all guilty of this murder.

Saturday November 7, 2009, 6:44 pm
That's right hate, hate, hate. What else can cultures of the world know today, but hate? If the world of mankind isn't mature enough to know that Nidal Malik Hasan was twisted and in conflict from the US war that has broken International Law to kill and wound more than a Million Iraqis and more hundreds of thousands of Afghanistan people, then how many more will be driven nuts from our insensitivity and murder US?

Fort Hood Massacre is an example of War Crimes that we accept every day. We accept soldiers suffering from killing people and returning with their lives forever changed for the worse. We accept the death of our enemies as if they are not people too. We accept the idea that our enemies are our brothers and sisters. We accept that Nidal Malik Hasan was a murderer and terrorist or blame him and see him as the enemy when he was US.

Nidal Malik Hasan was an America Citizen. He was deeply disturbed by his military experience and more outraged by the prospect that he was going to have to go and fight or kill other Muslims. He taught US that the world is uncaring not to see his pain and conflict when he repeatedly tried to free himself of his military obligations and pay his educational debt with money instead of going to Iraq or Afghanistan. We ignored his being a Muslim and sent him to kill other Muslims. He suffered the racism, hate speech of returning soldiers telling him of their superiority to the evil and bad Muslims they killed, abused, while occupying their country and ridiculing their faith.

We accept the idea that our War Crimes in the M.E. are nothing, but Nidal Malik Hasan's crimes are hateful and wrong. Everything you know is wrong! All War is WRONG! Nidal Malik Hasan died and his actions say this louder that any words. Hate, self hate, guilt, shame, and death are the fruit of war and warriors returning from war that make all wars War Crimes.

Yea, Nidal Malik Hasan was a crazy bad guy that murdered a lot of good people, but why? Does it matter or are we just out to make him the bad guy and dehumanize him and others more? Can we mature beyond US and THEM or will this be our fate? Our biology like roosters fighting each other fate? Can we be more than our biology? Can we be more human than animal as our wars make US look like rooster with technology...?

Thursday November 12, 2009, 3:22 pm
Thanks Terry, She is definately a HERO.

Friday November 13, 2009, 4:15 pm
Actual hero may be Sgt. Todd

Friday November 13, 2009, 4:59 pm
This is wonderful. Brave gal.
Thanks Terry