Thank God...

Great to hear that your brother is safe... that kind of anxiety can make minutes seem like years, as we all know.

Your point is a solid one, and as unfortunate as it is to think that this kind of "p.c." activity is at the root of such a tragedy, I don't see how it can be ignored. While I probably haven't been following the news from Hood the way you have, what I have heard is commentary on how "disturbing" it is for Muslim Americans serving in the armed forces to know they may have to work towards the killing of fellow Muslims... something forbidden by the Koran and by the hadith.

Now, having never served myself, I won't pretend to understand what goes through a man or woman's mind when contemplating what might happen during a deployment to Afghanistan or Iraq, but the possibility that one might have to defend one's self or one's comrades with deadly forces must be prominent, to say the least. I wonder why it is easier to reconcile the murder (there is no other word for it) of innocent Muslims in Afghanistan or Iraq by the Taliban or al Qaeda than it is the murder of innocent Americans who are trying to stop the Taliban or al Qaeda? Obviously, someone capable of turning his weapon against his fellow soldiers because he doesn't want to be deployed is one unbalanced soldier himself (to say the least)... but many people commenting on this tragedy do feel that the greater crime is that perpetrated by the US Government than the one perpetrated by the soldier that killed those people and caused Ryan so much worry at Fort Hood.

How sad is that? Honestly... how sad is that?