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It's one of a hell of a double edged sword. The investigating officer has the option to be accused of harassing a man for his name and singoing him out for his rights of an opinion and risk his career... or take the chance that this guy is one of many who just shoots his mouth off. After all, he's a major...a doctor...nah.
Now people want accountability. Perhaps if the investigating officer didn't have to weigh his career on a maybe.
Hold on a second. From what I read, the Muslim whacko that shot up the military base was running his mouth openly about performing terrorist activities. If so, I doubt very seriously that someone red-flagging this guy is gonna face investigation for profiling or being politically incorrect. And if he's "one of the many", as you said, then we have a much bigger problem than being 'politically correct' if you have masses of military personnel openly talking about performing terrorist activities.
However, i'm a pretty open-minded fella. That comes with the 'liberal' title, I reckon, so in fairness, i'd certainly love to read something that shows unequivocally that this whacko that shot up Fort Hood got away with it because of political correctness.
This is the same dilemma when it comes to homosexual activity. To investigate thoroughly or not to investigate thoroughly. That is the career question. How many people are eager to accuse a high ranking officer of being gay or a terrorist-to-be? This isn't the civilian world. A politician screws up, he still gets re-elected. A military man screws up, it's his career or people die or both.
Not being a military man, I don't understand why accusing a high ranking officer of being gay can be anything like accusing someone of being a terrorist. That's something you'll have to explain to me. But regarding the terrorist, I reitierate that it was a mistake. But blaming it on being 'too PC'? I heard a lot of that in this thread, yet no one - not a soul - has offered up specifics as to what we SHOULD do. You think everyone dropping the whole 'political correctness' stuff is what needs to be done? Fine. Tell me WHAT exactly we can do here. Be specific (ie, you want to strip search every Muslim within 100 miles of a military base? No one with Islamic roots should be allowed into the military? What?).