Bob Schiefer's Fort Hood Rant

Just watched the Bob Schiefer commentary on Face the Nation on the events at Fort Hood.

While he asks some good questions and makes some cogent points, there's something he omitted.

See if you can guess what that could be.

Good advice or not, I am jumping to an obvious conclusion: This should not have happened. That doctor should not have been at Fort Hood.

I don't care how hard-up the Army is for mental health professionals - a government psychiatrist with bad performance ratings who had been trying to get out of the Army and who had been saying what Dr. Hasan had been saying about the war on terrorism, should not have been shipped off to Fort Hood to give grief counseling.

What do you suppose he was telling the soldiers, that after what they had done they OUGHT to feel bad?

Certainly, no officer with his record would have been allowed to lead soldiers into combat.

Sadly, this shows that the Army still does not take protecting soldiers' mental health as seriously as it does training them to shoot.

And then there is the other part that often happens in government: Don't deal with a problem, shuffle it off to somewhere else. When he had problems at Walter Reed Hospital, the doctor was just packed off to Fort Hood.

Investigators confirm now that someone by his name had been posting messages on the Internet about how suicide bombers are as heroic as American soldiers who fall on grenades to save their comrades.

But the investigators say it is not clear if Dr. Hasan actually wrote those messages.

Based on what we know so far, my question is, do you suppose anyone has even asked him?

Of course Hasan should never gotten to the time and place that he did.

However is the "shuffling off" of the problem due mainly in part to a slavish adherence to political-correctedness?  Perhaps all the "sensitivity" training that his superiors have had to endure influenced their actions -- after all, he was a Muslim, can't be seen as being intolerant.

Because not offending Hasan's sensibilities, and those who harbor similar views, was more important than not exposing the vulnerable to his apparently incendiary opinions. He was enabled by the fear by others of being labeled racists or bigots.  Looking the other way as a career-protecting move. And now all we have left is the "suspect as victim" mentality to blame.  Right Bob?