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Originally Posted by trident60
How about taking a look at the years of fitness reports that Hasan's evaluators wrote? Past perspective is 20/20 and his Islamic radicalization is hard to miss from this vantage point, but his superiors had a ringside seat to this madness for years. What kept them from exposing his bestiality? Could it have been the traditional military aversion to sensible critique in fitness reports? It is widely known that anything less than 100% on a fitness report is grounds for discharge. But is there something more subtle going on? Could it be a perverse coddlng of political correctness among the men and women that we want to be unequivocal warriors and death dealers to our enemies?
To be sure the Clintons and the larger military command structure bear blame for this travesty, but isn't anybody responsible for anything? Shouldn't a bunch of officers get reprimanded, demoted, or discharged over this? 13 people are dead and nobody except this hapless fool is in the spotlight for wrongdoing.
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Setting aside the Monday morning quarterbacking you're doing, I suspect his position as a physician probably played some role. They're not subject to the same rules as other officers in the military for a bunch of reasons, with the main one being that it is difficult for the military to hold on to them. Physician retention rates in the military are quite low for a lot of reasons. Deployments, low pay, and lucrative civilian careers await after the enlistment is up. Not saying that is why this guy wasn't subject to more scrutiny but it is certainly a possibility.
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