GOOD QUESTION: Why’d Army allow soldier who allegedly showed ISIS support to stay active?

Col Gregory A. Gross, who severed as the initial judge in the court martial of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan in 2009, told The Associated Press Tuesday that the Army may have decided Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang was just mouthing off and was not a threat.

Gross said he was concerned by the similarities between Kang and Hasan’s case. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded more than 30 in a 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas.

“He was making all these statements, and giving these presentations,” said Gross, who is currently a civilian defense attorney for military service members.

Noel Tipon, an attorney in military and civilian courts, said there’s nothing in the Army manual on removing soldiers from the service that would address allegations like speaking favorably about a group like Islamic State.

He suspects the FBI wanted to Kang to stay in the Army while they investigated whether he had collaborators.

“They probably said `let’s monitor it and see if we can get a real terrorist cell,’ ” said Tipon, who served in the Marine Corps.

That was my first guess, but after the last eight years — who knows?