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War Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Republican, didn't need a focus group to describe the 2009 Fort Hood massacre.Asked by Jack Posobiec on Real America's Voice how the decision to execute Nidal Hasan by firing squad came about, Hegseth called it a "no brainer."An Army officer betrays his country, commits a radical Islamist attack in uniform, and kills soldiers at Fort Hood. So the sentence will be carried out at Fort Hood, by soldiers with rifles, at the same time of day he opened fire.Then Hegseth added: "We'll make sure that people are able to watch."He also reminded everyone what the previous administration called it. Workplace violence.Workplace violence. As if Hasan had a dispute over the break room fridge.On Nov. 5, 2009, he walked into a processing center full of soldiers preparing to deploy, shouted "Allahu Akbar," and opened fire on unarmed men and women. Thirteen dead. Thirty-two wounded.But sure. Sounds like a matter for HR.The Obama Pentagon clung to that label for years, because apparently saying "radical Islamist terrorism" out loud was more dangerous than the terrorism itself.Let's be clear about who Hasan is. He was an Army major who turned his weapons on the people he swore to serve beside. That's not a workplace dispute. That's betrayal.A military jury convicted him in 2013 on 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder, and sentenced him to death. His appeals ran out in 2025.Hegseth recommended the firing squad. President Trump approved it, as the military justice system requires. The date is Dec. 3, at Fort Hood.Expect the pearl-clutching. A firing squad? How barbaric!These tend to be the same people who couldn't bring themselves to say the word "terrorism" for five years.There is something fitting about it. He murdered soldiers. Soldiers will carry out his sentence, on the same ground where he spilled their blood.None of this is a celebration. Nobody should be cheering.Thirteen families have spent 17 years without their sons, daughters, husbands and wives. The survivors still carry the wounds.It is somber. It is sad. It is justice.And at least this time, we're calling it by its real name.Sources: Real America's Voice; Grabien; Fox News