Fort Hood jihadist faces death now Washington must purge its policy of lies

Sixteen years after his deadly rampage at Fort Hood, the United States Army is preparing to formally recommend the execution of Islamist terrorist Nidal Hasan — at last.President Donald Trump, when he receives that request, should swiftly order Hasan’s death: That would be necessary justice.But it will not absolve our government for its years-long policy of lies and euphemisms surrounding Islamic radicalism that empowered Hasan to kill 13 service members — a policy that began under President George W.Bush and continued through the Obama and Biden administrations.Fort Hood was not an unexpected “tragedy.”It was a preventable act of jihad, made possible by institutions that treated the truth about Islamist violence as more dangerous than the violence itself.Hasan, an Army major who was given preferential treatment solely because of his Muslim religion and Arab ethnicity, murdered 13 Americans and wounded 33 others at Fort Hood, Tex., on Nov.

5, 2009.Hasan screamed “Allahu Akbar” as he emptied his pistols into unarmed soldiers — then walked up and down the abattoir, shooting the wounded.I had the honor of representing Hasan’s victims and their families in a lawsuit filed against the Army and the FBI in 2012.We sued because the government knew Hasan was an incompetent doctor and a terror threat, but chose not to act.Hasan’s hatred for Americans was well-known.During his Army medical training he spouted justifications for suicide bombing, defended Osama bin Laden and said his religion trumped the Constitution.His business card read “Soldier of Allah.”Two different Army officers, an instructor and a colleague, separately called him a “ticking time bomb.”Yet his official officer evaluation reports “sanitized his obsession with violent Islamist extremism into praiseworthy research on counterterrorism,” a 2011 Senate investigation found.He was promoted to major despite manifestly poor performance — and credible evidence that he called PTSD-...