The AP reported this morning that the Army report to be released today will implicate Army Maj. Nidal Hasan’s supervisors and those who knew of his troubled behavior, but failed to detail …
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Hasan is a pitiful excuse for a human being…DR heal thyself man! Anyway unfortunately when it comes to taking responsibility for others actions (especially when those actions have been condemned) the hands off attitude always trumps human and moral decency. Their is NO excuse for what any of his supervisors did and that goes double for him!
This is one situation where everybody involved should be held accountable. It appears that countless people all suspected that something was not right with this guy for quite a while. Passing the buck got several people killed and even more were injured. I have learned from my own life experiences that someone must always be held accountable, you never take for granted that someone else will do it, because when it doesn’t get done, the problem gets worse. If one person is responsible and held accountable, he or she will make sure its done even if that means appointing someone else to do it. These soldiers that died knew the risks of death when they joined the service, but not one of them ever expected it to go down like this. My heart goes out to the families of those that died and someone could have prevented it.
finding a whipping boy for what happened won’t save the next set of victims of someone going postal who has access to weaponry.
i wish i knew how we could lay the groundwork for positive systemic changes but i don’t.
i even suspect that the level of unhappiness of ordinary people in our military is much higher than we could suspect or independently measure. what we get to see on the outside is the tip of a suppressed iceberg. and it will remain suppressed because the leadership has tunnel-vision as a result of the focused way they are trained and the political costs of stipulating to systemic failure.
This is exactly why we must find the ones to blame and let all those involved know that someone must be accountable by punishable action. These families are going to demand it and it can not go unpunished, why, because someone else in another state can do the same thing. I don’t think that’s going to solve anything either, but we must try. We can not just turn our backs and hope it doesn’t happen again because we haven’t found a way to fix it. Everybody that saw the signs of something wrong, decided to ignore it, and you’re saying that we can’t fix that.
There seems to be an absence of personal professionalism and responsibility that is part of the culture. In many work situations, not just the Army (tho’ that may be worse) it takes guts and determination to give a person a deserved bad or critical evaluation, and to recommend perhaps demotions or worse. Superiors may or may not support the person who is willing to take a stand -[supported by observations/evidence, not just opinion]. In the end this is the worst outcome possible when everyone in charge takes a pass – and thinks they have gotten rid of their problem by moving the misfit/imcompetent to be someoneelse’s problem.
It isn’t that anyone could foresee he was a likely murderer — but if they had simply reacted sensibly to his inappropriate and incompetent behaviors, this probably would not have happened. Everything recorded about him screams out for intervention. And why did all these officers think it was OK for enlisted men to be counseled by this man?
This process CAN be changed if it’s made a priority.
Something should have happened is right, something definitely needs to happen to derail these types of situations from happening again. I’m sure its tough to intervene and take a stand on many occasions. Its even tougher now for those same people to explain to the families of fallen soldiers that their child is gone and it didn’t happen overseas, it happened right here in their mess hall.