It is possible the man may have had a plan all along.
For some with ambition either for status, money, or a profession where the competition from the basics up is terrific and calculated to severly cull out all but the most likely to succeed, and where the education and training is so expensive........ the USA military appears to offer a lot of perks, incentives, even advantages over the skills of others who are competeing for the same space in a class or rotation but are of civilian and therefore a more expendable capacitiy when we're at war.
While it would have been horrifying if he had carried out a plan after deployed over there..... it is possible that he would not have drawn the attention which he wanted for his cause or that it would have be excused to the defense of PTSD, a convienient catch all phase for both deserving and non deserving eplanations.. It could have more easily been covered in the confusion and mixed populations of war....... but, here??????????????
Hummmmmmmmm?
And since the military supposedly wouldn't release him for his desire not to be deployed, nor discharge him at a time when extablishing a private practice might be more lucrative and stable than waiting for a later discharge date?????????????????
But it does sound like what ever figured into his thinking...... he was cold and very calculating as to what he would do, made advance preparations...... according to one report of a Texas gun shop that sold him the guns in August............ increased his identification with his religion by changing from his customary western garb, to the garb which identifies with the eastern culture and often associated with muslim failth, and in other ways trhough behavior and speech was withdrawing from his previous appearance to embrace western culture.
While I agree with some out spoken critics on here who remind us that the fallen and their families need prayer (those killed are pass prayer, those injured and families with hurt and loss and healing of the base), I disagree that we give any patience or space in failing to expess our concerns with the islamic religion. In Europe, this faith is gaining its expression as over and above the law of the land, increasingly. It forces and coerces with threats or terrorism, its damands upon the masses. It uses its own muscle to control or kill among its own people. It has little room for mercy which it views as weakness. The people have no relationhip to God or God to them. The teachers of their book are the substitutes they follow instead of the real God. It is not fair nor would it be safe. for us to allow people of another religion or culture think that we are asleep to such violations on our lives and our freedoms, that we excuse their extreemes and criminal behaviors. And that is what 'suicide bombers; terrorist, lone gunmen 'for allah' are is CRIMINALS using and supperted by the excuses made up by their own religion. They don't understand Gpd who saves, who is meciful, who loves, who forgives, who heals, who restores, who mends, who comforts, who guides, who is present with them and even in them, who understands, who is just in his judgements, or who says that no man is righteous nor ever can be by mans own works...... and only a righteous man can live in Gods kingdom ........and that takes a forgiveness and change so great...... that ONLY God is able to make the way ............... and the sweetest story of all is that it is finished and already done.
I hope that, whatever happens to this doctor, .........and it may be after the injuries which he's sustained that his ability to communicat any of his motivations or reasoning may be loss........ I hope some one is loving enough that God will make a way, and he receives a clear explanation of the gospel of Jesus Christ and receives it.
While I think that, in this world, it is appropriate to hope for justice (and to be selective with mercy), the punishment in the next world is so permanent that I can't see how an honest believer in Jesus Christ could hope for less than mercy..... towards any person...... and be thankful that this is between God and each man's choice.
raying:Strange things continue to happen since I planned to cut out forums for a time to devote to my third book. This time a Major, slated to deploy to the mid-East, feared the horrors of war so much that he decided to start a war at the military base he was to deploy from.
