Hassan battled harassment based on his "Middle Eastern ethnicity", according to his cousin Nader Hasan, and was seeking to leave the military.
"He hired a military attorney to try to have the issue resolved, pay back the government, to get out of the military. He was at the end of trying everything," Hasan told Fox News.
There is something SERIOUSLY wrong with a system that does not allow for any individuality, that does not recognize that there are some, regardless of their desire to serve, that are just not capable of going to battle. This is a man who was obviously coming undone over his imminent deployment. A man who was desperate to get out of the military and not only wouldn't they let him, they were harassing him. The mentality of the military is so backward that it frightens me, it always has. Considering that I have two family members, whom I love dearly, that are now a part of this antiquated pathology frightens me even more. Our troops are actually being taught to hate, it is unavoidable considering the circumstances we are putting them under.
Can you imagine how hard it must be for good Muslim Americans to serve in the military? It is about to get so much worse for them. This shooting was a real game changer and not in a good way. There is no doubt that we need to support our troops no matter what, but there needs to be some kind of populist backlash against a military who does not know how to protect their own. There have been 117 troops who have committed suicide just this year. These are war causalities and yet aren't being treated as such. Let there be no doubt that this shooting at Fort Hood and these suicides are due to a failure of the rigid mindset of that institution, nothing more, nothing less. It has to change and it has to change fast before more lives are needlessly lost.
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