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 05:12 pm (UTC)Transcript here.