Coffman calls the Fort Hood report watered down and politically correct

Rep. Mike Coffman (R-CO) sent a strongly worded letter to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Friday, warning of the dangerous risk to national security from failing to recognize the threat posed by radical Islam.

In the letter, Coffman demanded Gates take immediate action, citing a growing pattern of behavior by military leadership and the current administration – most recently manifested in the Final Report on Fort Hood – to be politically correct by failing to identify radical Islam as the principle threat to the United States thereby unnecessarily exposing our military to more attacks.

“The U.S. Army’s “Final Report on Fort Hood,” released last week, reflects the views earlier expressed by General Casey in avoiding the role that radical Islam played in the killing of 13 American soldiers.

The final report does recognize that the Army did not properly identify the internal threat Major Nidal Hasan posed before he killed 13 American soldiers, but, unfortunately, it falls short of identifying the significance of the threat that the radicalization of Muslims can pose within our military.

The unintended consequences of the “politically correct” approach, currently advocated by the U.S. Army, will ultimately have the negative effect of only increasing the suspicions of Muslim American military personnel and thereby potentially causing increased alienation, segregation, and finally the radicalization of Muslim American personnel.

How many more soldiers must be sacrificed at the altar of political correctness before our military changes course?”

Click here to read the entire letter.