Profile of a Coward

Americans have now had some time to digest the horrific shooting spree at Fort Hood in Texas that resulted in 13 killed and 30 wounded. What is emerging appears to be the criminal act of a lone, despicable, cowardly loser.

By all accounts this Army psychiatrist was reportedly a marginal performer who recently transferred to Fort Hood after serving six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he received poor performance evaluations. This coward voiced criticism to the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also web postings attributed to him espousing the glory of suicide bombers. Loser.

Now that he has been reported to have survived his gunshot wounds we will no doubt have to endure a legal circus covered in excrutiating detail and spin by the main stream news media. The defense of this man is almost predictable. It may go something like this. As an Army psychiatrist he listened to other people’s combat experiences until he developed his own form of faux-PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.) This led to a breakdown and thus the shooting rampage. Bottom line: there is no defense of this criminal act.

Actually, he was a coward whose time had come. After years of somehow avoiding duty in a combat zone he was scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan at the end of the month.

He lived a coward’s life and will die a coward’s death and does not deserve understanding or compassion.

I reserve my compassion for the victims and their families.

*POLITICALLY CORRECT ALERT*
There was no use of or reference to Muslims (except for now) in this post.