Major Nidal Hasan (cbsnew.com/ap)
Major Nidal Hasan never favored going to the firing range, so why did he open fire on his fellow soldiers?
According to this family, Dr. Hasan, Alumni of Virginia Tech, wanted to get out of the Army because he was constantly harassed and called by racial slurs such as “camel jockey.” Despite his high rank and medical achievements, he had a difficult time enduring the stress of dealing with his colleagues.
Why couldn’t he pull rank on those that spoke to him in a derogatory manner?
However, Dr. Nidal Hasan also suffered from stress of getting orders of deployment to Iraq. The same sort of stress that he counseled other soldiers on that were being deployed to and from the war zone in Iraq and Afghanistan. As a Disaster and Preventive Psychiatry specialist, he had opportunities of speaking with other specialists like himself. Instead he chose to fall victim to his own destructive nature of being a suicide killer.
“Just keep in mind mass killers pretty much know they want to die and they tend to take as many people with them as they can in a shooting,” said former FBI agent and ABC News consultant Brad Garrett, who also believes Hasan didn’t want to survive the Ft. Hood shooting.
“It is one of those things where he went and wanted to kill a lot of people and commit suicide maybe in his own mind that he’s saving peoples’ lives,” said Garrett. “As illogical as that sounds, in his mind, that would be quite logical.”
After killing 13 soldiers and wounding a dozen others, Major Nidal Hasan is now stable after being taken down by a female civilian police officer, Sgt. Kimberly Munley.
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Per google health: Post-traumatic stress disorder is a type of anxiety disorder. It can occur after you’ve seen or experienced a traumatic event that involved the threat of injury or death.
Being deployed to Iraq does not result in past traumatic stress syndrome. You need to have the stress. Going to Iraq and getting shot and can result in PTSD. The poor American heroes that were shot at by this clown and survived may suffer from PTSD. This is act is simple–domestic terrorism by an extremist. Too bad that he wasn’t in Iraq or Afganistan with Al Queda, at least the soldiers that he was shooting at would also have been armed.
I have to disagree slightly with Dr. Brian’s comment. This doctor was not just deployed, he was a psychiatrist specializing in disaster and preventative psychology. One cannot deny how damaging it must have been for this man’s psyche to constantly relive the horrific experiences of others on and off the battlefield. It is not our place to judge his mindset, as neither Dr. Brian nor anyone else has walked in this man’s shoes.
It amazes me how quickly the media jumped on board with the idea that Nidal Hasan was himself the victim! This is a sad commentary on the state of our media system. It was almost as if the reporters were attempting to quell any speculation that this was in any way tied to terrorism. Nothing like waiting until all the facts are in!
At times, it feels like I am watching a salesman rather than a newsman. This time they are selling the idea that Hasan is a victim! Is anyone ever held accountable in this society?
Two points I would like to make:
1) The media were obviously reluctant to entertain the possibility that this was a terrorist plot long before gathering all the facts (make your own decision as to their motivation).
2) In the early stages of development, the focus of this story was more on the “likely” victimhood of the Hasan, than the victims of his horrific attack.
It is disheartening to see this decline in our media – makes me sick.