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Originally Posted by Finny
Wait, a second.. I never said anything holier then thou crap. You are reading why too much into something. I don't like my brother serving and I rarely talk to him.
Its an issue with you. Thats fine. But my point is Iraq War, WW2, Viet Nam, First Gulf War or whatever conflict.. Military personal have always been treated like sh!t. But you missed that point.
You decided to rant and rave about this.. Thats great. But I am telling you how it is. I am not your buddy and I am certainly not disagreeing with you on the article.
But blame also has to be shared. People need some responsbility. That Soldier decided to huff sh!t. Does he not bare some of the responsbility for his actions? Or we going to be apologists for ever person who makes bad choices?
If thats a case, I guess we should forgive Congress and President Bush. Do you now see my point?
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Come on, Finny, you know damned well that these kids (born in the mid-late 1980s) aren't responsible for anything. They've been brought up all their lives being told that it's always someone else's fault.
Frankly, I'm tired of all this whining about "post-traumatic stress disorder." While they may not be responsible for whatever "trauma" occurred, they are responsible for how they choose to deal with it. It isn't the traumatic event (in this case, specific incidents during the Iraq War) that caused this guy's problems, it was his own choices on how to deal with the horror of those incidents that caused them.
What was it someone once said? "War is hell." Now, let me add to it: "War is hell - deal with it!"
It's no wonder so many of these guys are coming back messed up in the head: they're a result of what American society has become - a society of whiny crybabies.