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Is there a loyalty greater than your country? Well apparently to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan there was, enough to kill for. The army psychiatrist, a man born in the U.S. as much as you or I was, decided to deal with with his dual loyalties to both Islam and the U.S. by going crazy himself, killing 12 people and wounding 31 right in the middle a supposedly secure army base screaming “Allah Akbar” all the way.
This c0nflicting loyalty was from a religious standpoint. It sort of resembles the story of theSt. Patrick’s Battallion (Batallion de San Patricio) which was made up of Irish and German Catholic deserters from the U.S. Army who had no desire to slaughter their fellow Catholics anymore for their Protestant officers and politicians and fought for the Mexicans. Thus their faith trumped their nation-state.
This isn’ the only example of the conflicts of dual loyalty. Thousands of German decent had kill other Germans in World Wars I and II. Italians as well in WWII and I’m sure Irish soldiers from the U.S. were not keen to be allied with the oppressors of their homeland. However, in fighting to “Save the World for Democracy” or against the loathsome Nazis, German-Americans could console themselves that they were fighting wars of liberation. Italians too against Fascists. If it is true that very few Muslims find anything appealing about Al Qaeda’s call for a worldwide Caliphate or the Taliban’s backward misrule of Afghanistan, then it shouldn’t be hard for them to serve the U.S. loyally during the “long war”, right?
Unfortunately, since we haven’t captured Osama bin Laden after eight years and because we sidetracked ourselves with a useless war in Iraq, we have wound up occupying both nations, unavoidably involving ourselves in pretty local politicians and choosing sides and injuring and killing civilians while fighting those who oppose foreign troops on their soil. Thus the pull of dual loyalty becomes stronger when the cause of the nation-state becomes less clear or filled with phoniness.
Thus with this dual loyalty, Maj. Hasan probably isn’t the only ticking time bomb waiting to go off in the U.S. military depending upon the situation. Certainly any conflict with Mexico or Venezuela or Cuba would risk the loyalties of Spanish speaking members of the military. Jonathan Pollard became a spy because of dual loyalty and no doubt such same dual loyalties are encouraged by AIPAC that has led others to spy for Israel against the U.S. And who’s to say other such wars in the name of our empire begin to pull and tear at the fragile fabric of the nation’s and its military that represents it One person killed and wounded 43. What havoc could one company do?
Perhaps stepping back, whether from mass immigration or empire building might be the only way to prevent our military from going the way of the Romans who also employed those with dual loyalties to defend the Empire and watched it crumble anyways.
Maj. Hasan’s rampage killed a fellow Wisconsinite, an Amy Krueger from German-Catholic community of Kiel in the eastern shore part of the state near Lake Michigan, also known as the “German Holy Land.” Another soldier from the state, one Grant Moxson from Lodi, which just outside of Madison, was injured too. However, a Wisconsin soldier named Amy Bahr from Random Lake, a small town near Milwaukee, saved a soldier’s life by applying a tourniquet to an injured solider. Wisconsin may not be a martial state like South Carolina, but when those from the Badger State are called to serve, they sacrifice and serve honorably as anyone. It has many heroes to celebrate.
mikefromwichita on 08 Nov 2009 at 3:43 pm #
folks the official version we are being fed regarding this event smells to high heaven. Do you TRULY think a single REMF (army does not teach them much about shooting) who is most conveniently a crazy arab with a couple of handguns could take down 40!!!!!!!!! REAL soldiers??????
Weaver on 09 Nov 2009 at 10:43 am #
They weren’t front line soldiers is what I hear, and also unarmed.
I’ve read it described as “shooting fish in a barrel” by those who were in the military.
roho on 10 Nov 2009 at 10:49 pm #
If your the only one in the room with a weapon, you could take down Navy Seals!
Which is why OUR GOVERNMENT would like to have ours?