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Dexter Filkins of The New Yorker on his article 'Atonement' about returning Iraq veterans
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- Iraq
- war
- New Yorker
- Dexter Filkins
- veterans
- journalism
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nzg 10/24/2012 07:33 PM Report
The concept of "moral injury" is not new, only the term. This is exactly what the troops were faced with in Vietnam, and it's unforgivable that our government placed our troops back in that type of situation. If our politicians were sending their sons and daughters to the battlefield, there would be a lot fewer wars. Why is anyone surprised, and why does no one ever mention Vietnam ... a war where there was no "front" and everyone was a potential enemy. We will be paying for all of this for generations because of the human fallout. What kinds of husbands and fathers can these young men be, especially when we don't give them what they need the highest priority, and their problems are invisible to the general public. As an American, I think it's a disgrace.
REMant 10/24/2012 12:54 PM Report
Not war: police action or counter-insurgency. And the UN leadership wants more of it. The guy snuffed in Lebanon last week was engaged in aiding the Syrian rebels. No one BTW has said anything about the possibility that the Iraqi government might come to the aid of the Syrian minority, though I would suppose they are afraid stirring up internecine warfare as well. And I doubt the Turks are interested in much more than keeping their borders clean, and their own minorities in check, unless coerced by NATO.