Shooting at Fort Hood----Is Killing Becoming Second Nature?
Posted: Thursday, November 05, 2009
by Sandra E. Graham
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A soldier, a Major, a Psychiatrist, a person sworn to help soldiers cope with numerous tours of duty and the combat stress that haunts so many of our soldiers, has done the unthinkable---lost his own grip on sanity and methodically killed and wounded over forty of his own countrymen. Fort Hood , Texas has become our latest killing ground.
Thousands upon thousands of soldiers pass through Fort Hood at any given time. My son spent his time there during his first years of service. And we don't think we have to worry about our service boys and girls while they're on American soil---at least, we didn't until today. I have to ask, "What is becoming of our country? Is killing becoming second nature to us? Are we becoming no better than the terrorists that we have vowed to eradicate?
I'm sure Major Malik Nidal Hasan did not consider our soldiers, who like himself, were being deployed to Iraq or Afganistan, to be innocent victims of his misplaced faith (or just plain unjustified rage). The average American soldier is there to do a job---the job to help relieve the oppression of people anywhere in the world. Their primary issue isn't to kill indiscriminately or because of a person's political or religious beliefs.
How many more lives must be sacrificed before our leaders open their eyes to what has been right in front of their noses since pre-9/11? Have we learned nothing? I'm sure not all Muslims hate Americans or the American government, but there have to be some sort of warning signs that are a prelude to the massacres that stain our homeland. How much longer before our own country is torn by civil strife that keeps third-world countries third-world'?
The radical Muslim must realize that their project has brought more disadvantage than benefit to the Muslim world. And if they truly want to fight for the Muslim world, they need to recalculate what the Muslims have experienced after 9/11. And on the same hand, the United States government needs to understand that their interventionist policies have just triggered more hatred of our government and its people. But there again, we are not a country to stand by while innocent people are killed and maimed by radicals and terriorists.
We have our problems---killing won't solve any of them.
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More commentsthis is a very good article! last line is very true... love youThanks for reading and commenting, Brittany.Sandra
hi sandra,this world is just plain crazy, if you ask me. i'm worried about my daughter in the army and my son in the air force, and they could get killed anywhere. my youngest son was at his father's on rehoboth beach, and got mugged. thankfully he wasn't hurt, but they punched him and he tried to run but they tackled him, but somehow someone must have come because he got away, and identified 1, then the other 3 a few days later. they got 7-9 months in jail. now i worry what they'll do when they get out. and he got his wallet and money back. ahhh, everything's a lesson.i think it all boils down to self hatred, being projected onto the world we are jealous of. if we want a car we can't afford, we can steall one. if we have no money, we can rob a convenience store. i wonder if we can ever really be fixed,my best to you,sueProbably not in our life times. But I feel there will come a time when we will all have to face our own personal judgements.Thanks for reading and commenting, Sue, and for not making the article more than it really is---just a comment on the sicknesses of misplaced beliefs.Sandra
Helen told me to read this and it is great!Thank you, Brittney, for taking the time to read and comment on this tragic event.Sandra
Could not have been said any better. Great article.Thanks, Debbie. Have a good week-end.Sandra
I wander why people do kill other people? and is killing really becoming our 2 nature???I hope not!!! This is a really good artical!!!!!GOOD JOB!!!! & i LOVE U!Thank you, Cheyanne.Sandra
I wander why people do kill other people? and is killing really becoming our 2 nature???I hope not!!! This is a really good artical!!!!!Thank you Cheyanne.Sandra
Excellent job of stating an opinion and factual backing it. Content/context were consise and well stated. A good thought provoking article!!Thanks, Mike. Good to hear from you. Hope all is well for you and your family.Sandra
As long as there has been religion, there have been people killing over it. It's nothing new. The simple fact is, religious people place their deity above the common man, making it not so hard to kill men in order to impress their deity.And don't say we don't know if religion had anything to do with it. The guy was yelling "Allahu Akbar" or "God Is Greater". He was known as a "lightning rod" for religious issues.All religious groups have done the same thing when they thought they were being oppressed. Sandra, even you felt the need to throw in "his misplaced faith". Because yours is the only right one, right?For me, my faith is the right one. I don't believe killing makes me a better person in my God's eyes. My faith teaches me to love everyone, not just those who love and agree with me. My faith may not be the right one, but it doesn't make me want to kill anyone. I don't think most (if any) truely religious people condone murder. It is the radicals and terrorists that use these tactics.Thanks for your opinion and comment.SandraI will assume you are not Christian, then, since the Christian holy bible makes multiple mentions of not only condoning, but demanding murder in the name of their god.I am Christian, but not the 'Christianity' to which you subscribe. Neither my Bible, nor my God tells me to 'murder' in His name and anyone who reads that meaning into the words of the same Bible I read, needs some serious help.
"They entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul; and everyone who would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, was to be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman." (2 Chronicles 15:12-13 NAB)"Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel." (Deuteronomy 17:12 NLT)"If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, 'You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord.' When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through." (Zechariah 13:3 NAB)That's just a tiny sampling. I don't really see how that's in any way unclear or open to misinterpretation.I won't argue about the 'wording' of the Bible. I don't claim to understand the meaning behind everything it says and what people did or did not do thousands of years ago (I believe they also sacrificed animals--which no one I know does any more), because I am not qualified to explain each verse to you. All I am trying to say, is that I don't believe the Lord wants or expects us to go on a killing spree because of differences in our beliefs. I know it happens, it is just not something I believe in. If my children decided to become atheists, I would/could not kill them. I would pray for them and try very hard to convert them. If that makes me not a Christian, then by those standards, I would not be. But I still don't believe that God expects us to kill no matter how many verses of the Bible seem to say that. The Bible is full of hard to understand verses, so you will just have to believe what you wish to believe and I will do the same.Thank you for sharing, Mr. Davis.Sandra
I do believe that our country is in need of taking a close look at the problems that lay within itself. It is terrifying of the thought that our children are headed for such a scary and dangerous future. We are definitely in dire straits right now, and I don't see any relief in the near future. I will just continue to pray for our country and the ones that have lost loved ones. God Bless us all.Too true, Freida. Thanks for reading and commenting.Sandra
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