Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, survived the shooting rampage he went on at Fort Hood, Texas that killed twelve people and wounded 31. It was, according to the Wall Street Journal, "one of the Army's worst single-day losses of life" since the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm sorry for the senseless loss of life and the families left behind.
Hasan completed a fellowship in disaster and preventive psychiatry earlier this year. Preventive psychiatry is pretty much what sounds like, a branch of psychiatry "dedicated to the prevention of mental illness and the promotion of mental health."
I got nothing.
Psychiatrists usually go through stringent mental health evaluations themselves and Hasan had just finished intensive work in preventing the very kind of breakdown he had. Of course, people are bringing up his Muslim faith and its relation to his imminent deployment to Iraq. ("I wish his last name was Smith," an unidentified Army Officer's wife told ABC News.)
I just don't know.
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Your country needs to learn about Nonviolence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4F8kJchX4I&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=D9592FA7CAC67331
Mahtma Gandhi and Martin Luther King jr. were two excellent ambassadors of nonviolence.
I'm with President Obama when it comes to dealing with this tragic incident - i.e. not jumping into conclusions when the full extent of the facts behind this tragedy are yet to be examined. As someone with someone close to them currently assigned in holding back the tide of Religious Extremism, I just hope that Major Hasan gets a fair trial.
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