The day Hasan proposed prosecuting his own patients for war crimes was the day he should have been relieved of duty – irrespective of his obligation, his cost to the Army, or any other mitigating circumstances. All the other things that were overlooked are understandable, but not that. Whoever made the decision to not grant his request, and then didn’t follow through to make sure he saw no other soldiers from that day forward was not thinking clearly – and needs to be removed from duty as well. That was not just a red flag. That was a desperate cry for immediate action…<\/font><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hasan and War Crimes By emptywheel 11\/17\/2009 At first, I didn’t make too much over this report that Nidal Hasan may have gone on a killing spree because his requests that his patients be investigated for war crimes was denied. Fort Hood massacre suspect Nidal Malik Hasan sought to have some of his patients prosecuted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Ever since I read yesterday that Hasan had wanted to prosecute his patients for war crimes based on what they told him in their sessions with him, I’ve been uncomfortable. In my career as a psychiatrist, I saw lots of traumatized people. In my later years, they were mostly adults who had been traumatized as children. But early on, I saw lots of soldiers from the Viet Nam War. They talked about three kinds of experiences: things they saw, things that happened to them; and things they did. It was the latter category that gave them the most trouble. Frankly, it gave me a lot of trouble too. I’ve never been in combat myself, but I could understand that the insanity of war could easily drive the soldiers to do some pretty awful things. But understanding that didn’t make the stories easy to hear. I don’t think it helped much that I wasn’t in sympathy with that war myself.<\/div>\n