U.S. Knew of Suspect’s Tie to Radical Cleric

ACP; Your comments are dead-on, with one exception.  The media has GREATLY over exaggerated what a bad OPR/EPR means in the military.  You can get negative OPRs/EPRs for almost anything; doing poorly on a PT test, getting a little too drunk with your buddies, failing to appear at work on time, etc etc.   Simply getting a bad OPR is not a sign that this guy was a "problem", however, I think the evidence that's been coming out shows that there were MUCH bigger issues at work here, and you're absolutely right, the problem was getting passed along in the hopes that "the next guy will deal with it".  It happens WAY too often.

ACP:

"Has political correctness gone so far, as to ignore obvious signs? "

Yes it has! Just take a look at some of the comments to this post by the "progressives" that are obsessed with ridiculing and marginalizing anyone that doesn't march in lock-step with their zombie-like ideology. It's an epidemic and in the case of the Muslim terrorist  that went on the rampage in Fort Hood, it has gotten people killed! Americans need to be able to tell it like it is without fear of being called ridiculous and nasty names.

Rhonda security will always be breached there is no such thing as good security, the security guys got completly caught out. 

sorry I realy could not find a picture of bullshit that was not under copyright, lol

Meanwhiles, over at the daily kos, the subject is mostly ignored, except as a means to plug Obama, and Obama-care. Imagine.

Anyway, after Fort Hood yesterday and the Orlando engineer "going postal" today, I think the President needs to get on the tube and try to talk this country off the ledge. I know my idea is a little over the top - but clearly some of us, maybe a lot of us, need a time-out; and the President may just be smart and articulate enough to pull it off.

I wish the people who needed to hear President Obama would listen, but the Glenn Becks of our nation have a vocal minority of the electorate so riled up that they'll take anything Obama says as Mein Kampf revisited. Obama might say something about peace, and the wingers will start screaming about how it's code for having their guns taken away or appeasing the Islamo-Communisto-Fascists or pretty much whatever you can imagine. (These commentators are wolves in clowns' clothing.) Some of this agitation comes from racism; some is the standard, post-Gingrich GOP tactic of having a huge hissy-fit whenever Democrats do anything. (This complements the Democrats' tendency to be huge wusses -- but that's another story.)

 But there's another factor at play here that I don't think the President or anyone else can talk people down from, and that's severe mental illness. You can't reason with a psychotic person; I learned this the hard way once upon a time. You have to help them get proper treatment, which is often no simple matter.

I'm not saying that a perfect system would have prevented this particular shooting, but putting serious effort into creating a better system would lead to improved quality of life and fewer premature endings of lives within the military and among veterans. The same is true for healthcare on a nationwide scale.