Chris Matthews Says Hasan Should Have Had Conscientious Objector Status

Chris Matthews

"They're coming to take me away, ha ha, ho ho, hee, hee...."


MSNBC's Chris Matthews continues to go off the deep end on a daily basis. The Ft Hood massacre has demonstrated just how nutty Matthews has become. At least twice in the past few days, Matthews has stated that Nidal Malik Hasan should have been given conscientious objector status. Obviously, Chris knows nothing about what he is shooting his mouth off about.

First of all, conscientious objectors can be assigned to a combat zone in another capacity. Hasan was slated to go to Iraq not as a combat fighter, but as a psychiatrist. The same applies to combat medics. During World War II, for example, Lew Ayres, a famous Hollywood actor, was a conscientious objector. He still served as a combat medic-and served with distinction.

Another issue that has been bandied about by our media is the idea that a Muslim should not be asked to fight against other Muslims. Really? It seems that Muslims in the Middle East do a pretty good job of fighting each other. Just ask the Sunnis and Shia in Iraq. Besides, why should not Muslims be lining up in droves to fight those who are bringing such dishonor upon the religion? Along those same lines, should Christians not have fought fellow Christians in the US Civil War and the two world wars? Japanese Americans fought on our side in World War 2. They served as translators in the Pacific against Japan and served with great valor in Europe even while many of them had family members in relocation camps.

The problem is that Matthews is trying so hard to maintain his sense of political correctness, that he is tying himself up in knots-and looking more ridiculous by the day. But after all, this is the guy that doesn't see anything wrong with Americans "calling up Al Qaida". People like Matthews don't want Americans to call this what it was, an act of Islamic terror, but nobody stops to point out that Hasan had no compunction about stating his feelings openly. The fact that the Army didn't take action on this man is a scandal.

But perhaps it is all a moot point anyway. Conscientious objectors object to killing in general. Apparently, Hasan doesn't fit into that category.