The Issue: Victims of the Fort Hood massacre who are pushing to have the attack labeled an act of terrorism.
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In “Fort Hood: Diversity Rules,” (Editorial, Oct. 29), you urge President Obama to “correct the record, call the massacre at Fort Hood by its true name — terror — and accord a proper measure of respect to troops who’ve been denied it these three long years.”
But that would involve an apology — and Obama only apologizes to people who hate America.
David Rabinovitz
Brooklyn
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What happened at Fort Hood should be obvious to any sentient person, but there are those so blinkered by political correctness that the truth eludes them.
Political correctness has permeated our society and defined truth down, camouflaging it with sugar-coated pieties — as if a society based on disguising reality is preferable to one that confronts it.
We will not find comfort in the wake of this terrorist disaster, nor will we make progress, if we continue to blind ourselves to the truth.
Paul Bloustein
Cincinnati
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Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan murdered 13 innocent Americans in an attack three years ago.
The victims and their relatives have now demanded that this attack be labeled terrorism — yet the Obama administration refuses to call it such. The word seems not to be in Obama’s vocabulary.
And Hasan still has not been court-martialed or tried by a military court.
It would behoove Congress to initiate an investigation into the delay of Hasan’s trial.
As a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars, I resent this delay by the Obama administration to bring a terrorist to justice.
Al Eisner
Silver Spring, Md.
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Political correctness expands Hasan’s crimes.
While Hasan is accorded special treatment, our heroes and their families are denied the “benefits and honors they are due,” as Texas Gov. Rick Perry says.
Political correctness has eroded free speech, and promoted lawlessness — even within the military.
Nancy J. Jancourtz
Brooklyn