“Mat your comments and views of many of your fellow Americans may have led him to act this way.”

I know, because I’m a big meany. It’s called growing up. I got called a lot of names in school. But I didn’t decide to start watching extremist videos and plot to cap 40-50 people.

“According to those who knew him, he was heavily discriminated against due to his religion and ethnic background (Palestinian).”

Gee, I can’t imagine why he would be discriminated. I mean, Islam in general and Palestinians in particular don’t exactly have a history of being particularly rational, you know?

“Including, according to ABC News- for rednecks, part of the “liberal elite media”- he was called a “cameljockey” and worse by his fellow army staff.”

Yeah, exactly. After what I’ve seen on the network news and their “low” (yes, I’m being pretty sarcastic here) level of bias, I’ll decide to yawn and call bullshit on this one.

“What a nice bunch of guys. I wonder why he would shoot them (yeah right).”

You want to know something? Then he shouldn’t have gotten into the army. Those guys put up with an incredible amount of crap, so for you to sit back on your computer in your nice cushy home and make that kind of moronic statement pretty much sums up how pathetic you are. Those guys have to literally put their lives on the line every day. Do you? Yeah, didn’t think so.

Of course, you seem to conveniently gloss over the fact that this guy was watching jihadist videos, which I think is probably more of a reason for him shooting up a base rather than any mean comments by a few guys.

Bullshit. He was a Major. Who do you think was calling him cameljockey and raghead? Enlisted men? Only if they thought 4 weeks of extra duty and a black mark in their records was worth it. Officers who wanted to destroy their own careers?

I’m wondering when my civilian “betters” will stop BS bickering over non-important issues and help solve just 1 problem instead of whinning over how the other side is reacting to it.
The economy, school shootings, health care, education et all. I look back to the states and I wonder what this nation can do? Nothing together it seems.
It doesn’t mean that everyone must jump onto one side or the other and just go with it, but a little more focus on solution would be nice. Suppose this and the news are the wrong places to ask for that. Sensationalism rules this land more than any government.
I’ll sign up for another tour, at least we work together over here.

Oh, WAAAA! Is he an adult, or not? I was called all kinds of stuff in school, and it’s much more difficult for a young person to shrug off things like that than an adult. Don’t make excuses for crap like that.

I think that America’s terrible treatment of Muslims and “War on Terror” nonsense- which avoids Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Sikh and other extremists and only focuses on Muslims- may have driven this and other attacks on Americans.

The total number of extremists in ALL of the other religions you named are vastly outnumbered by the number of extremist Muslims, and every time one surfaces, he or she is vehemently denounced by others belonging to the same faith. Of Muslims around the world, on the other hand, numbers ranging from 15%-50% (depending on country) sympathize with extremists and violence in the name of Islam, even if they are not personally involved.

I am so concerned for all of the soldiers at Ft. Hood and their families, this has been a horrific afternoon. My condolences to the families of the dead and thoughts to those of the injured.

Bless you and bless her and thank her for serving.

While any mass shooting is horrible, this is doubly bad because it happened on a base where there are so many soldiers on their way to or just back from life-threatening situations. Our troops are in so much danger when they’re in Afghanistan and Iraq, they ought to be safe when they’re home in the U.S.

My heartfelt prayers to you and everyone experiencing this horrible tragedy first hand. It’s hard for everyone — it’s a national tragedy — and I can’t imagine the horror those who have direct involvement must feel.

All of the Ft. Hood community are in my prayers.

My heart goes out to all those at Fort Hood, their friends and family.

The above line, with some of the words dropped but with the intent remaining, could describe how people view the Daily Kos. Such as:

Mark: You are well aware of how anti-American most of the commenters are on the Daily Kos, but are still shocked by their words over the tragedy at Ft.Hood.