More moon logic from the government
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missroseroseSupport the troops while they're abroad, screw them when they get back!
Here's the part I don't get: How can post-traumatic stress disorder be considered a deviation rather than the norm for returning soldiers? I mean, you're putting these people in a situation where their bodily safety is endangered twenty-four hours a day, and where they're seeing the kinds of horrors that no person should have to witness - on a daily basis. And somehow, most of them are supposed to come back to civilian life mentally unscarred? Or with a fairly mild "adjustment disorder"?
I don't think this would even bug me so much, except that the administration that decided to send these kids to Iraq in the first place, the same administration that's put our country trillions of dollars in debt to fund this so-called war, the administration that heavily promoted the sense of "Join the Army! We'll take care of ya, kid!", now apparently doesn't have the cash to properly care for the mental health of returning soldiers. Talk about your screwed-up priorities...I wonder if they'll find such a willing pool of volunteers the next time around?
Here's the part I don't get: How can post-traumatic stress disorder be considered a deviation rather than the norm for returning soldiers? I mean, you're putting these people in a situation where their bodily safety is endangered twenty-four hours a day, and where they're seeing the kinds of horrors that no person should have to witness - on a daily basis. And somehow, most of them are supposed to come back to civilian life mentally unscarred? Or with a fairly mild "adjustment disorder"?
I don't think this would even bug me so much, except that the administration that decided to send these kids to Iraq in the first place, the same administration that's put our country trillions of dollars in debt to fund this so-called war, the administration that heavily promoted the sense of "Join the Army! We'll take care of ya, kid!", now apparently doesn't have the cash to properly care for the mental health of returning soldiers. Talk about your screwed-up priorities...I wonder if they'll find such a willing pool of volunteers the next time around?
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Date: 2008-05-20 05:03 pm (UTC)Am I the only one who remembers this?
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Date: 2008-05-20 05:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-20 05:12 pm (UTC)Transcript here.
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Date: 2008-05-20 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-20 08:49 pm (UTC)One of my uncles had the misfortune of being in the Navy during Vietnam; he has PTSD because of an event he witnessed that he still has problems with today. He's had to go through a lot of changes in his life, along with therapy (not sure about medication) and he's gotten to the point where he's not as likely to dive under the dining room table during a low-fly exercise from Travis. The various branches of the armed forces are having trouble keeping people in the sand-pit across the pond; first the stop-loss program was made and now they're offering HUGE bonuses to stay there, but no one's biting the bait and they're panicking. I smell a proposal to bring back the draft out there, which I am against because we're not even protecting our own country anymore. Seriously, we've sent all of our defenses to other places, leaving the homefront open to attacks of all kind.
I'm not even old enough to really say this but I never thought I'd miss Nixon.