Hillary Clinton is aghast. Again. The woman who once shrugged off four dead Americans in Benghazi with a dismissive “What difference, at this point, does it make?” has suddenly discovered her inner moralist. This time the outrage is directed at the upcoming public military execution of Nidal Hasan, the jihadist Army major who murdered 12 fellow soldiers, 1 civilian, and 1 pre-born baby at Fort Hood. There were also 32 soldiers and civilians injured. Hillary calls the plan to livestream the firing squad a “barbaric idea, beneath our dignity as a country.”

“Push back on this” Hillary urges.

Ok. I will. But the following conversation requires a baseline of facts and logic, so you’re excused, Hillary.

First, a few facts.

The death penalty exists for a reason. It’s not primarily about vengeance, though the families of the dead have every right to it.  The reason we have a Death Penalty is about removing from society people whose crimes are so craven, so deliberately evil, and so heinously destructive that they forfeit the right to continue breathing the same air as the rest of us. And, of course, the Death Penalty is about deterrence. When a high-ranking officer in the uniform of the United States Army decides that his radical Islamist ideology requires him to slaughter his fellow soldiers, the response should be unambiguous, public, and final.

Soft language and endless process? Signals weakness.

Strength signals consequences.

Nidal Hasan received due process in abundance. He was convicted in 2013 of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. The military jury sentenced him to death. He then spent more than a decade exhausting every appeal the system offers. The Supreme Court finally denied review in 2025. President Trump approved the sentence. The Army set the date: December 3, 2026, at 1 p.m. Central Time, by firing squad, at Fort Hood itself.

That date and time are not random.

A look back.

November 5, 2009, was a Thursday. An US Army Officer, Nidal Hasan, walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center where unarmed troops were preparing for deployment, and became a terrorist.

He shouted “Allahu Akbar,” and opened fire.

He killed 13 and wounded 32. December 3, 2026, is also a Thursday. The execution is scheduled for the same hour the rampage began, at the same installation where the blood was spilled.

Poetic justice is not barbarism. It is clarity.

Hasan was no random civilian grabbed off the street by hooded terrorist thugs and beheaded for worldwide cameras. He was a major, a trained psychiatrist, an officer who swore an oath to the Constitution and then betrayed it in the most literal way possible. He murdered fellow soldiers in cold blood while they were unarmed and focused on the mission of defending the country. That is not a workplace dispute. That is terrorism committed from inside the ranks.

Now, for the logic.

Hillary Clinton’s selective “sensitivity” to barbarism is rich. When American diplomats and security personnel were murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, the then-Secretary of State’s primary contribution to the national conversation was a shrill, petulant question about whether the precise motive still mattered.  We all remember it. But if by chance you don’t, a reminder.

The difference, of course, is that those barbaric deaths occurred 9/11/2012 on her watch and “complicated” a preferred political narrative that she perpetrated. Hasan’s victims do not threaten what’s left of her disappeared relevance, so now she can cosplay the high-minded critic of “barbarism.”

No one is required to watch the execution. If the livestream proceeds, change the channel. Turn it off. Go ahead and look away. Free people have that option. What they should not have is the option to pretend that a man who massacred soldiers, in the name of jihad on an American Army post, deserves indefinite taxpayer-funded lodging and medical care after every legal avenue afforded to him has been closed.

In the end, I don’t think this public military execution will happen. It will, I suspect, be delayed or blocked by the usual last-minute legal maneuvers by radical law-hating progressives, and squishy others, that we’ve seen time and time again. Courts have a long history of finding creative ways to frustrate final judgments in capital cases.

And should that happen, Hillary can move on to her next performative outrage because we all know it’s out there. The rest of us will still remember the soldiers at Hood who never came home, and a wee pre-born baby who never got the chance to grow into something extraordinary, all from a Texas processing center on a Thursday afternoon in 2009.

I believe justice delayed is still better than justice denied. And for the record, justice for Nidal Hasan’s victims is NOT beneath America’s dignity. It is the bare minimum of it.

The featured photo used is of an AI generated “outraged Hillary”. I think it did a fine job!