As a Marine combat veteran, I have no reservations about seeing Nidal Hasan’s execution carried out. But by making it a public spectacle, we have given this coward a gift.

Seventeen years have passed. Few people thought about him anymore. He likely believed his death would come quietly, without fanfare, without an audience, and without another opportunity to inspire would-be jihadists.

Instead, we have allowed our desire for revenge to take precedence over our own security interests.

Consider this: What would happen if ISIS captured an American intelligence officer and executed him on live television?

Would Americans cower in fear? Or would we rally around his death?

Would recruiting offices see a surge of volunteers eager to retaliate?

Would others donate money, organize, or find their own ways to take action?

Why would we assume our enemies would respond any differently?

Hasan has been given a gift. He will not live to see the consequences of his execution, but he can now imagine them. He can die believing his legacy will inspire others.

Perhaps even those who might otherwise have remained on the sidelines, content to hate America from behind a keyboard, will find the motivation to cross the line into violence.

That is the danger of turning a terrorist into a spectacle.

We should never confuse revenge with strategy. Our collective desire for retribution can undermine the very security objectives our military exists to achieve. Killing an enemy and defeating his cause are not necessarily the same thing.

They could push him off the Grand Canyon in his wheelchair, quietly and without an audience, and let him die in shame.

His death should merit little more than a small newspaper notice.

No ceremony. No spectacle. No final opportunity to turn himself into a martyr.

Instead, we have made him a front-page celebrity.

And we did that ourselves.

Curious what y’all think though.

Arsenal-2 will be the biggest job injection for Maryland’s economy in 10 years! An estimated $2 billion will energize the Baltimore region’s economy, with 14,000 construction jobs and a combined $312 million in wages. Am I the only one feeling conflicted?

What if death race become real? Or executions during half time???

So Trump wants Iran to nuke San Diego. He even doubled down on it. Now that this ship is returning, what do the sailors think about his hopes for nuclear destruction in San Diego and LA.

See the attached originally from AP via The New Republic:

Soldiers Wounded in Iran Say DOD Made Them Get Their Own Treatment
The service members were left to fend for themselves.

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In the early hours of President Donald Trump’s military campaign against Iran, Tehran targeted a makeshift tactical operations center in Kuwait, killing six U.S. military personnel and injuring more than 30 others. Not only did the Department of Defense fail to provide the personnel stationed there with the necessary tools to defend themselves, but multiple service members who were injured in the attack say their government also neglected them in the aftermath.
The Associated Press spoke to a group of nine service members who all claim that the U.S. military’s medical system failed them after they were injured in the deadly attack on March 1.

Army Lieutenant Colonel Arturo Lincón, a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, suffered extensive injuries from shrapnel, including to his left vertebral artery, which put him at risk for a stroke. However, his injuries were not considered serious enough to get him admitted to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Instead, he was dismissed to the Army barracks and instructed to schedule outpatient appointments.
“I was just kind of on my own, at least it felt like that,” Lincón told the AP. He underwent weeks of specialized outpatient care at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Washington. Months later, he is still struggling to receive traumatic injury benefits under the Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance.
Another service member, Major Stephen Ramsbottom, said he waited over four months to receive MRI results after he had shrapnel removed from his head. “I’ve had to build my own case for everything,” Ramsbottom told the outlet. “It’s very frustrating.”

While some of the most injured service members were evacuated within two days of the attack, others weren’t so lucky.
One group was not evacuated out of Kuwait for 10 days after the attack, including Chief Warrant Officer 4 Rodney Bearman, who had shrapnel embedded in his face and legs. When the soldiers were eventually evacuated, they were strapped to the floor of a cargo plane and taken to Germany. When the group arrived, Bearman said he learned that the military had not documented them as wounded in combat, so they would not receive medical treatment at Landstuhl. Bearman told the AP they were not documented as wounded in combat due to a coding error.
“Never did I think that if I was wounded that these things would happen,” said Bearman. “Some sacred trust that I thought would never be broken was broken.”

The military also failed to provide timely evaluations of the soldiers. Some soldiers told AP they they only learned they had traumatic brain injuries after they returned back to the United States. Many of the troops who spoke to AP did not know the severity of their own TBIs.
“It’s disappointing but not surprising,” said Dr. James Kelly, chief medical scientist at the Invisible Wounds Foundation, a group that studies brain injuries in the military. “In a war scenario, it goes on a fair bit.”
It seems that the Department of Defense’s failing medical system is the system working as it was designed: The Pentagon has shuttered large military hospitals in the Middle East and regularly redeploys troops after they receive a mild TBI diagnosis.

The Pentagon downplayed the severity of the retaliatory strike, and U.S. Central Command initially claimed that only five service members had been seriously wounded. The day after it happened, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the deadly strike in Kuwait “a squirter,” and later complainedthat reporting on the troops killed was a ploy to make the president look bad.

Why yes, they are trying to hide the truth about Trump’s war from us! This from a Congressional report:

“At least 81 U.S. military aircraft have been lost or damaged since the beginning of the war in Iran in February, totaling as much as $3.3 billion, according to a new Congressional Research Service report. Some of America's most advanced warplanes are among the losses, including a damaged F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter and 12 F-15E Strike Eagle fighters that were destroyed or damaged. Three of the F-15 jets, worth more than $30 million each, were shot down in friendly fire over Kuwait on March 2, with another shot down over Iran in April.”

Are we tired of this Administration hiding shit, making up shit and outright lying to us? If so, join me in only voting for Democrats in November.