Army veteran and trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter writes in the New York Post:
As a poster boy for the anti- war left, Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo seemed almost too good to be true: an assimilated American Muslim turned soldier -- turned pious conscientious objector, after it suddenly occurred to him that some of the guys he might be pointing his M4 at were Muslims too.Tweet
And he really was too good to be true. As an Army deserter, accused child-porn aficionado and now admitted aspiring jihadi who botched his attempt to pull off a second Fort Hood massacre, the precocious Abdo has already managed to clinch the lowlife triple crown at age 21.
It's sad that a wide array of military-haters, terrorist apologists and media meat puppets (ABC and CNN, among others, publicized his claims) were so willing to be suckered by this creepy little degenerate's tale of one religious man's oppression by bigoted warmongers.
Here's the bright side: The military's politically correct code of silence about potential psychos in its ranks is broken.
When Abdo spouted off with his jihadi-friendly views during training, there was none of the tolerance and excuse-making that enabled Maj. Nidal Hasan to pass up through the ranks until he'd murdered 13 people while shouting "Allah Akbar!"
When Adbo announced his sudden conversion to pacifism -- not mentioning the apparent exemption for Muslims who kill Americans -- the Army didn't rush to rubber-stamp his newfound reluctance to fight. Instead, it spent months investigating his conscientious-objector application -- much to the horror of Abdo's liberal cheering section.
Then, when Abdo's government computer turned out to be packed with child porn, the Army again made the right call and prosecuted him, instead of quietly hustling him out the door. Letting Abdo go be civilian society's problem would have saved it a lot of hassle, but avoiding conflict is not what earned the 101st Airborne its reputation.
And after Abdo slunk away AWOL, he showed up outside Fort Hood -- where a local gunstore owner didn't let political correctness stop him from reporting the little weirdo who wanted to buy a lot of firepower.
Who knows how many lives not being politically correct just saved?
The military learned its lesson about the threat of Islamic terrorists in its ranks the hard way. Before the invasion of Iraq, Sgt. Hasan Akbar tossed a grenade into a tent and killed two soldiers; he has a date with a needle. Everyone remembers the Fort Hood killer, but fewer have heard of Marine reservist Yonathan Melaku, a 22-year-old charged with shooting at DC-area military buildings last fall.
Many within the tight-knit military world know someone hit by one of these attacks. (One of my friends was wounded by Akbar, while Maj. John Gaffney, who was murdered at Fort Hood, served in the brigade adjacent to mine.) But now the chain of command is exercising reasonable caution -- without persecuting loyal American Muslim troops.
After all, it's not about being Muslim -- Abdo is the rare one who seems to think Muslims do not belong. He was mouthing the claims of the enemy when he told ABC News, "Any Muslim who knows his religion or maybe takes into account what his religion says can find out very clearly why he should not participate in the US military."
In reality, few Americans have worked as closely with Muslims around the world as servicemembers. And while the enemy is often Muslim, so are many of the allies who our soldiers fight, bleed and die with.
As for Abdo, he'll get his wish: He won't be deploying to Afghanistan with the Screaming Eagles (not that they'd have him). Too bad for him that the soldiers sitting on his court-martial are a far cry from the peaceniks, appeasers and cable hosts that made up his fan base.
It's not Abdo's religion that is going to seal his fate -- it's that he's a sniveling coward who tried to murder his brothers in arms. The only way he could get less sympathy is if he had Jane Fonda as a character witness.
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