Today's Washington Times is reporting that Senator Joseph Lieberman plans to start a Congressional investigation into the shootings at Fort Hood last week. He has stated that if initial reports on the incident are true, the incident would be "the most destructive terrorist act to be committed on American soil since 9/11."
Senator Lieberman wants the homeland security committee to investigate the motives of the shootings and to see if there were any warning signs that were missed leading up to the event.
According to the article:
"Really, in the U.S. Army, this is not a matter of constitutional freedom of speech," he (Senator Lieberman) said. "If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone."
Unfortunately, General George Casey, the Army Chief of Staff, has a slightly different take on the matter. The article points out:
"But the Army chief of staff said Sunday that he is concerned that speculation about Maj. Hasan's Muslim faith and the motives behind the shootings he is accused of could spark retaliation against Muslim soldiers and hurt diversity within the branch's ranks."
That is the kind of logic that will result in more of our military being killed or wounded. When we reach the point where political correctness prevents us from seeing warning signs because the person involved is from a certain group of people, we are endangering all of our soldiers.
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