In the aftermath of the massacre at Ft. Hood, left-leaning members of the media (which is to say, most of them) rushed to explain Major Nidal Malik Hasan’s despicable act in the gentlest way possible.   Television psychologists and psychiatrists – real and wannabe – weighed in on the subject.

They somberly wondered:  What made Hasan (an innately good man, they implied) crack?  Was it taunting by non-Muslim soldiers, post-9/11, for his Islamic faith?  Was it Hasan’s revulsion over “immoral” wars in Iraq and Afghanistan?  It must have been something.  Something that other people did wrong.

That’s bull, and we all know it.  If Hasan were, say, white and not of the Islamic faith (someone such as  Timothy McVeigh) we wouldn’t be looking to mitigate the awfulness of his deadly rampage. But for years, America has been infected with a deadly disease:  political correctness.

To be sure, it has taken on different forms at varying points in our history (sometimes favoring – and then disfavoring – this group or that).  But it has always been insidious.  And it has been detrimentally influencing our nation’s Armed Forces for decades.  See:  Military Madness.

-- Mike Murray