According to a report released January 15, 2010, by the Department of Defense (DoD), on the Ft. Hood murders, the military should focus more resources on identifying service members who might pose a threat to their colleagues. The report, “Protecting the Force: Lessons for Ft. Hood (Report of the DoD Independent Review),” states that the military’s defenses against threats from within are outdated and ineffective.

Secretary Robert M. Gates said: “The shooting spree allegedly perpetrated by a self-radicalized soldier of Muslim faith has revealed shortcomings in the Defense Department’s ability to counter dangerous outside influences on the military,” Gates went on the say: “The review concluded that [Defense of Department] force-protection programs are not properly focused on internal threats such as workplace violence and self-radicalization.”

The report leaves much unanswered.

Nowhere in the report does it mention the threat posed by Al Qaeda and nowhere does it mention influences that caused the “self-radicalization.”

There is nothing on why it happened.

The only revealing piece of information in the “Executive Summary: Overview,” is that “DoD force protection programs are NOT focused on internal threats.”

In its 86 rambling pages they treat “the alleged perpetrator,” Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, as just another workplace shooter with references to the Columbine massacre and the new civilian police force concept of neutralizing an “Active Shooter.”

The report did flirt at saying that any attempt to call attention to Maj. Hasan’s radicalism and prevent his promotion could be perceived as reflecting poorly on his superior officers and maybe have negative influence on their careers.

There is another DoD report, which is classified and not available to the public, where one can only hope that DoD recognizes the role “political correctness” played in this tragedy.

Political correctness and the absence of profiling is going to get more American killed until someone in Congress says enough is enough and do something to stop this nonsense.

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