Cite that they promoted him for “diversity?”
He was a doctor. Doctors in the military go in as O-3 (Captain in the Army) and the first promotion to O-4 (Major) is all but automatic. There was absolutely nothing unusual about this guy’s rank. He was exactly where you’d expect an Army doctor to be.
The population of the US is diverse. If the US military is not diverse, then it’s not making use of large portions of available manpower. Given that there are issues recruiting enough soldiers as it is, losing diversity would lead to serious shortages of new recruits.
This isn’t rocket science.
Our enemies make heavy propaganda use of the notion that America is at war with Islam. It behooves us to counter that lie at every opportunity. It even more behooves us to make damn sure it stays a lie.
I wonder how many jihadist’s minds we’ve changed?
Moron. It’s not the minds of the jihadists that are at stake - it’s the minds of moderate Muslims.
Now you’re confusing “diversity” with diversity. Diversity is a positive value; “diversity” is creeping socialism. No one bothers clearing up the confusion, because the smart folk think any idiot should know the difference and the dumb ones Want To Believe.
Oh boy is my face red now.
Who said he isn’t responsible? I’m saying Islam isn’t responsible. I hope the guy burns in hell. Well, I would, if I actually believed in hell. You get the point.
Mythical? There were dozens of cases of anti-Muslim violence immediately following 9/11 - in one case, a male Sikh was murdered by a mob that thought he was Muslim because he wore a turban.
A lot, actually.
Iraq vet ('08-'09) from the detainee ops/law&order world chiming in here.
Also, my opinion on the diversity matter can be summed up here.
As in, you’d like to hug that guy’s gravestone too, or you’re glad he’s dead? 
C’mon, through all these threads I’m hurt you can’t guess me better yet.
Well, I figured, but that picture could represent any number of messages when presented without any outside context.
We’re splitting hairs at this point, but I gave context.
That’s not context. You presented the link to the picture separately from your point about the jih… oh, we are splitting hairs, aren’t we?
Don’t sweat it; you’re presumably one of the smart ones.
That’s a powerful image.
OK then… how many “moderate” Muslims do we risk turning into Jihadists?
That soldier’s sacrifice is as great a tragedy as the Ft Hood massacre but what does it have to do with Diversity. The kind with a capital D that stands above all other military goals.
I appreciate your service and would be interested in your first hand knowledge of how we can keep Muslims from turning into terrorists.
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Er… lots? What the hell kind of question is that?
It’s not that moderate Muslims turn into jihadists. It’s that moderate Muslims may hear other Muslims talking about the US/West going to war with Islam, and decide they must fight America. They may not even decide to do it in the name of Islam, but simply on behalf of Muslims, who they perceive as being persecuted by the US.
Consider Abu Ghraib. The Arab world saw Americans acting just as extremist religious leaders said they did - cruel, sexually depraved, and so on.
In contrast, our own Bear_Nenno, while deployed to Iraq, solicited donation of toys and clothing from people back home (and on these boards) to hand out to the local kids, who obviously weren’t having much fun in the middle of a war zone, even a relatively peaceful one.
Which of those two images do you think is more likely to turn a moderate Muslim into a jihadist?
I’m an Obama supporter. I hear crazy right wingers talking constantly about how he’s a socialist/communist/Marxist/fascist, etc. Because I have a functioning brain, I pay no attention. However, my views might be changed somewhat if I turned on the TV tomorrow and saw him close a speech with Sig Heil!, or wear a hammer-and-sickle lapel pin…