I have yet to fully realize how politically correct we've become in this country. As the whole Ft. Hood debacle began and quickly concluded, we noted in class how timid the major media was about revealing Hasan's Muslim ties. Even days later, the mere affiliation was and still is reduced to an arbitrary detail buried deep within any news coverage.
I thought after the initial news coverage on Ft. Hood we'd begin to see stories about how the families and friends of the victims were affected by this enormous travesty-- possibly even something about gun control. Sunday afternoon I read this article featured in the New York Times. Instead, the article was on Muslims in the military, served up with a side-order of guilt. This article conjured up regret that I and probably every reader had when they naturally reacted to the idea that the gunmen was Muslim.
Aside from the guilt trip, the article left me asking, 'Is having ENLISTED soldiers fight a war they may find in contradiction with their nationality, religion, or basic ideals something we should be debating as citizens in this country?' Am I being 'primed' to believe that the Ft. Hood incident is America's fault?
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