Religion and Military do not mix and this is a tragic example of this.

The simple act of allowing any religion to be encouraged puts us all at risk.

As for this gunman’s mental state, they do say that suicide rates for psychiatrists are higher than average, so I wonder how surprised the military can truly be by this horrific incident…

The recipe for disaster was always there. Take a bunch of young males with weapons, sprinkle conservatively with religious friction. Heat on high flame with a person who has the career profile for a high suicide rate and you get-tragedy.

Next we will hear a lot of noise about withdrawing the troops.We will also hear a lot of noise about Ft. Hood’s culpability in this matter, the FBI’s attempts to perform damage control and the Army’s attempts to cover their backsides. We might even hear about the irony of this shooter’s specializing in preventive psychiatry.

But we will not hear any more about the wisdom, or lack of it, of our people and thus our government allowing religion and even encouraging it–in its own military.