That’s the view of Rep. John Carter (R-TX), whose district includes Ft. Hood. Rep. Carter is furious that the Pentagon’s nearly 90-page report on the Fort Hood shootings fails to mention the threat of Islamic terrorism. Today’s Washington Post buried an article on the report on page A15. The first reference to religion appeared in the ninth paragraph, which referred to “religious practices … that might lead to violence or self-radicalization,” as if Catholics or Jews might be suspect, too.

In his usually straightforward manner, Ralph Peters, a retired Army intelligence officer, thrashes the report as “gutless and shameful” in a weekend New York Post column. Peters writes: “It’s not about what happened at Fort Hood. It avoids entirely the issue of why it happened. …The Fort Hood massacre didn’t reflect an intelligence failure. The intelligence was there, in gigabytes. This was a leadership failure and an ethical failure, at every level. Nobody wanted to know what Hasan was up to. But you won’t learn that from this play-pretend report.”

Sadly, the political correctness that allowed Major Nidal Hasan to wage jihad at Fort Hood and kill 14 people is still running rampant at the Pentagon. This willful ignorance is just as dangerous as any jihadist, and both must be defeated.