Nidal Malik Hasan's country gave him everything he had and under no theory does it make sense for him to shoot his comrades-in-arms and fellow countrymen.

This man sickens and disgusts me. I can't see his face without cursing him. I'm outraged by those who rationalize and justify his form of evil.

Anyone who has ever been in the military knows that this man plotted the deaths of his fellow soldiers. Non-combat personnel do not have easy access to weapons, especially weapons off the firing range. He had to acquire his weapons from our arsenal through deceit and planning. Then he had to assemble several magazines full of ammunition, most likely by ordering or purchasing rounds off-base.  (Ammunition is strictly inventoried on posts like his.) Thus, he did not snap from pressure.  He most assuredly planned a mass murder.

It's preposterous to think that he "caught" post-traumatic stress disorder as a contagion. It's not called post-contact-with-others-who-have-been-under-stress-disorder. One must actually suffer trauma to be post-trauma.  

It's disgusting to justify his actions or to rationalize his murderous rage because this is a "different war". This war is no more politically tortured than Vietnam. This war is no where near as deadly as any American battlefield ever. No hippy draft-dodger opted to grab an automatic weapon rather than run for Canada. No American GI started firing rounds on his buddies when he learned that he was on his way to D-Day.

It's a moral outrage to claim that his actions are justified because he is a Muslim who didn't want to kill Muslims. The boxer Muhammad Ali went to jail as a conscientious objector. He did not kill Americans. In WW2, American Christians and German Christians did not turn their weapons upon their comrades because they didn't want to kill Christians. General Eisenhower was a German-American who like many other German-Americans and Japanese-Americans served his country honorably without considering the idea of killing Americans.

This entity resembling a human worked in a hospital where he witnessed injuries and death. With this experience and training as a healer (which we paid for), he chose to deal out death and injury.  Many doctors, including military doctors, hate and despise war.  They don't use that as a justification for killing soldiers who are about to be sent to war.

At first I was disappointed that he wasn't dead. Now I'm pleased.

I'm pleased that he will know the shame and dishonor that he has brought to himself and his family. Happy that he will know the scorn of his fellow soldiers, especially his fellow Muslim soldiers. Firstly and mostly I pity the dead and injured. Secondly, I pity his family and everyone else who was shamed by his ruthless form of evil.

I say directly to the scum that is pictured above:

Nidal Malik Hasan, mark your name down as one of history's lowest traitors. You have failed as a psychiatrist, failed as a soldier, failed as an American and even failed as a Muslim. You were ineffectual as a traitor because you have changed nothing in the strategy or tactics of your enemy. May you rot in prison pondering your worthlessness and awaiting your eventual punishment in Hell.

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About the Author --- Will Nesbitt is the principal broker of Condo 1 Alexandria / Will Nesbitt Realty LLC. Will specializes in condos, townhouses and single family residences in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County, Crystal City, and Kingstowne. Will resides in Belle Haven Estates just outside Alexandria VA in Fairfax County.