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Do you believe what happend at FORT HOOD was a terrist attack?
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This guy was a shrink specializing in stress disorders. Didja know that people who treat stress disorders frequently suffer them as a result? Add that to deliberate selection for various anti-social traits (like the ability to kill others) and the surprise is it doesn't happen more often.

I really don't think you make it to Major without having been pretty thoroughly vetted He wasn't a terrorist, just another victim of the military machine.

No. It was a peaceful protest. Islam is the religion of peace so it must have been.

2 Replies to peterf's answer

A peaceful protest would have been just that- peaceful; this was a shooting

Get yourself an irony detector - maybe they are available on-line.

Any person that attacks people of their own country's Army is messed up.

I think it was a hate crime. He didn't want to be deployed to the Middle East. He hated the idea of being deployed to the Middle East. He so hated the idea he snapped. Apparently the Army was the right place for him, only he should have been in the infantry rather than a doctor's office.

3 Replies to Chipmonk's answer

I think he hated those who were about to be deployed , as he saw it, "to kill Muslims".

I wonder how many more are in our armed services with similar thoughts and how dangerous they might potentially be. If he made his opinions clear like the newspaper has said he did make clear, was the army at fault for not stationing him in a part of the world away from the action?

Perhaps anyone else who is blogging similar thoughts to his should absolutely be kept far from the hot spots of combat? In retrospect I think it makes a lot of sense. Had this tragic event not happened it probably would not have occurred to me.

Another possibility would have been for the army to have invited him to pursue a civilian career in a part of the world more suited to his philosophy.

A terrorist action is one designed to inspire terror. I don't think this quite qualifies as the Major simply wanted to kill as many as possible of those he saw as his enemies.