The military’s report on Major Nidal Hasan’s brutal murder of 13 innocent individuals once again shows the lengths the federal government is willing to go to be politically correct. As Time notes, the report doesn’t mention Islam, Hanan’s religion and admitted motivation for the killings. In fact, the report doesn’t even mention his name.

We already know that Hasan wasn’t questioned about his contacts with Islamic radicals or his other troubling activities because of political correctness. In fact, the military went so far out of its way to avoid the appearance of discrimination that Hasan was promoted to major despite his known terror sympathies.

But even after he kills 13 individuals, 13 innocent individuals who did nothing but go to work, the military still won’t mention his religion or even his name? We’re still concerned about offending a mas murderer or somehow connecting radical Islam, responsible for countless deaths on American soil and overseas, with violence? Disgusting.

The apparent lack of curiosity into what allegedly drove Hasan to kill isn’t in keeping with the military’s ethos; it’s a remarkable omission for the U.S. armed forces, whose young officers are often ordered to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War with its command to know your enemy. In midcareer, they study the contrast between capabilities and intentions, which is why they aren’t afraid of a British nuclear weapon but do fear the prospect of Iran getting one.

Apparently you should only know and recognize your enemy as long as your enemy and his radical religious friends aren’t offended. I, too, have read Sun Tzu’s magnum opus. Perhaps I missed the part where he warns against mentioning your enemy’s name lest someone get offended.

Yet the leaders of the two-month Pentagon review, former Army Secretary Togo West and the Navy’s onetime top admiral, Vernon Clark, told reporters last week that they didn’t drill down into Hasan’s motives. “Our concern is with actions and effects, not necessarily with motivations,” West said. Added Clark: “We certainly do not cite a particular group.” Part of their reticence, they said, was to avoid running afoul of the criminal probe of Hasan that is now under way. Both are declining interview requests before their congressional testimony, a Pentagon spokesman said.

What? What? They’re not interested in the serial killer’s, nay, the terrorist’s motivation? Again, because they don’t want to offend anyone. God forbid the United States military is seen offending a mass murderer and his cohorts.

Time‘s Mark Thompson actually does a fine job attacking the idiocy of the report’s omissions. So I’ll send you over there for the rest. Good, and scary, read.

Via Hot Air Headlines.