ARMY SUICIDE BY COP

By Robert Weller

We may never know, but it may be that Maj. Nadil Malik Hasan wanted to end his life but didn't have the courage. Plus the Koran bans suicides.

So he took the old-fashioned route of suicide by cop. He couldn't even get that right.

He probably didn’t think he had any choice. Hasan failed in attempts to get discharged and likely was headed to Afghanistan. He did survive but may never be able to talk again as a result of four bullet wounds.

As a psychiatrist he wasn’t likely to go outside the wire downrange, but soldiers would be coming into him to tell him how they felt. Some would be Muslims. That would not have been easy to take.

Meanwhile, at Walter Reed, reports say he had already dealt with Muslim soldiers who had killed their Islamic brothers. Hasan also had been harassed. Rag Head, for example. There are worse.

The Koran bans suicide. At the same time it promises martyrs a place in paradise. How convenient. This was attempted suicide.

In Hasan’s convoluted mind he may have thought he was avoiding the suicide part and just being a martyr.

Makes you wonder just how bright he was. Suicide by cop has been around for hundreds of years. This was much more than that. He could have done that with unloaded guns. He wanted to kill people.

All Muslims should be discharged. We have no idea what it would take to make them wish to become a martyr. If your relatives were killed would you blame them?

Odd that we don’t want gay or lesbians in our military but we welcome people who may feel drawn to kill their fellow soldiers.

Now these Muslim soldiers could become targets. The Army will do what it can. But what can it do?

They still haven’t brought Post-Traumatic Stress under control. In fact, an expert psychiatrist said, "Counseling trauma patients certainly can have effects on the counselors, something we call secondary traumatization. And undoubtedly for Muslims, even Americans, it is stressful to have to go fight against a Muslim country."

Diversity can be a great asset, but to seek it in this situation is risky. Death is always a liability.