{"id":343406,"date":"2010-02-18T11:40:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22644"},"modified":"2010-02-18T11:40:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T16:40:16","slug":"stopping-soldiers-from-becoming-murderers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/343406","title":{"rendered":"Stopping Soldiers from Becoming Murderers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/magazine\/article\/0,9171,1963818,00.html\">Time Magazine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Adapted from Jim Frederick&#8217;s book <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Hearts-Platoons-Descent-Triangle\/dp\/0307450759\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1265640173&#38;sr=1-1\" >Black Hearts: One Platoon&#8217;s Descent into Madness in  Iraq&#8217;s Triangle of Death<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On Nov. 5 of last year, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist  known by his superiors to have job-performance problems and by others  in the government to have Islamist sympathies, opened fire at Fort Hood,  Texas, killing 13 people and wounding 43 more before he was subdued.  Defense Secretary Robert Gates quickly ordered a blue-ribbon panel to  conduct an investigation into how such an atrocity could occur. Gates  emphasized the importance of accountability. &#8220;One of the core functions  of leadership is assessing the performance and fitness of people  honestly and openly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Failure to do so &#8230; may lead to  damaging, if not devastating, consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Demanding  accountability is admirable, but it&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Time Magazine: Adapted from Jim Frederick&#8217;s book Black Hearts: One Platoon&#8217;s Descent into Madness in Iraq&#8217;s Triangle of Death On Nov. 5 of last year, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist known by his superiors to have job-performance problems and by others in the government to have Islamist sympathies, opened fire at Fort [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}