Tel-Chai Nation

The AP Wire (via Hot Air) reports that senoir officers of the Fort Hood jihadist turned deaf ears and blind eyes, according to a Pentagon investigation:

A Defense Department review of the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, has found the doctors overseeing Maj. Nidal Hasan’s medical training repeatedly voiced concerns over his strident views on Islam and his inappropriate behavior, yet continued to give him positive performance evaluations that kept him moving through the ranks.

The picture emerging from the review ordered by Defense Secretary Robert Gates is one of supervisors who failed to heed their own warnings about an officer ill-suited to be an Army psychiatrist, according to information gathered during the internal Pentagon investigation and obtained by The Associated Press. The review has not been publicly released.

Hasan, 39, is accused of murdering 13 people on Nov. 5 at Fort Hood, the worst killing spree on a U.S. military base.

What remains unclear is why Hasan would be advanced in spite of all the worries over his competence. That is likely to be the subject of a more detailed accounting by the department. Recent statistics show the Army rarely blocks junior officers from promotion, especially in the medical corps.

I may have said this at least once, and I'll say it again: those superiors are going to have to take responsibility for their actions - or lack thereof - and resign from their jobs. Even in the med-corps, there has to be some kind of caution to prevent these kind of things from happening.

Update: more on this at Power Line, which tells some very important stuff about the political correctness that caused the tragedy.

Labels: islam, jihad, military, terrorism, Texas, United States