The case for U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan

In the wake of the tragic loss of life from last week's shooting at the Fort Hood military installation in Texas, there has been a constant stream of conjecture concerning the reasoning behind the alleged suspect's rampage.

It would be an attempt of pure folly to subscribe the antiquated and over-used "he hates America and freedom" line to dispel any other motivation, but in these troubled times of constant strife within the Muslim world, a more precise explanation must be offered.

The mind of Major Hasan has been filled with images of people from both his faith and ethnic background who have faced unimaginable destruction under the guise of liberation, and these events have been incubated by the profession that he, Major Hasan, has intimately been a part of since before the War on Terror began.

One can only imagine the constant second-guessing that Major Hasan dealt with as he struggled to reconcile the direction his life was taking him. On one hand, he was serving his home nation in its most venerable form - the military - all the while never being accepted by his contemporaries, superiors, and subordinates due to the appearance and makeup of his person.

What path shall a man take when he is not appreciated by the very land and body he was born into? I believe the answer was played out in its most brutal form that gloomy afternoon on the base. After all, what’s a dozen or so lives compared to the taking of tens of thousands by the indomitable machine that is the U.S. military.....indomitable up until that few minute stretch when one man, one Arab, and one Muslim, changed the scorecard single handedly.

Perhaps the prism of relativism can convince his persecutors to go gently into their task. Though 233 years of American history tells us that is a fairly unlikely happening.