tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119906447472922361.post4136583438847752782..comments2023-12-21T22:03:18.964-08:00Comments on Sound and fury, signifying nothing: Incident at Fort HoodDade Cariagahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13431049944346345893noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119906447472922361.post-58547453751593015142011-06-07T08:28:29.185-07:002011-06-07T08:28:29.185-07:00His job was a psychiatrist debriefing those return...His job was a psychiatrist debriefing those returning from the horrors of war. His job over the last few years was to show empathy, concern and caring for those who are now permanently broken by the horrors of war. He broke because he was going to be sent to the source of these horrors, a source which he quite rightly despised. The cost of war is not simply counted in deaths and physical wounds, in fact I would say these pale into insignificance when held against the decades of mental pain by those who live through the experiences.<br><br>My last job was as a social worker in a low-income building in downtown Portland. I've had too many experiences of brave men weeping uncontrollably, beyond consolation at the things they have seen and done in Vietnam. The cost to these people is just appalling, and never stops, but I also paid a cost. Simply listening to these sorts of events made me so ill over time that it threatened my marriage and took me several years to mostly overcome. The effects of war effect not only those directly involved but their family, their friends, their counselors, their social workers, and they do so for decades.<br><br>I don't think it needs to be said that these killings are horrible and not forgivable. But the killer wasn't simply deranged, he was ill, broken, terrified, isolated and beyond seeing any good way out. That's what war does.Dan Binmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09631203781543243534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119906447472922361.post-77348364792416533912009-11-10T09:57:28.414-08:002009-11-10T09:57:28.414-08:00Maj. Hasan had, alledgely, been airiing his jihadi...Maj. Hasan had, alledgely, been airiing his jihadist tendencies for quite sometime. Apparently, the FBI was aware of his attempts to communicate with a radical Immam by email. Why was this information not passed on to his superiors at Ft. Hood?<br /><br />People should not confuse peaceful, REAL muslims with this sadly deranged individual. However, when someone expresses sympathy and/or agreement with jihadists AND they are in the military this must be examined. Perhaps, this sad incident is a result, at least to some extent, of political correctness run amok in our military.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119906447472922361.post-55772324124718073252009-11-10T04:32:58.117-08:002009-11-10T04:32:58.117-08:00Hey there Dade:
The need to lump all Muslims toge...Hey there Dade:<br /><br />The need to lump all Muslims together is almost entirely a pathological existential need for right-wingers and their conservative attachments.<br /><br />The framework for dehumanizing Muslims in this context is not new, it is merely a racist carryover as old as the republic itself ... even older.<br /><br />Onward!<br />RidwanRidwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119906447472922361.post-57980724398019179822009-11-09T11:12:11.279-08:002009-11-09T11:12:11.279-08:00My heart and prayers go out to all the victims, th...My heart and prayers go out to all the victims, the victims family and friends.<br /><br />From all the news reports it appears this Major is a career military man and that in his current position for less than a year and was not going well. He did not want to be deployed and in fact wanted out of the Army, so he paid back his military student loans and hired an attorney. <br /><br />The reason may have been that he was being harassed and called names like “camel jockey ”. I guess all that sensitivity training for those with bigotry tendencies are all for not. (Can training real change the way you were brought up?) <br /><br />Another reason is called PTSD by proxy, the stress of treating PTSD in other soldiers make you go a little crazy yourself. Its even more stressful because most of the higher ranks don’t even believe in such thing as PTSD. Their denial prompts them to tell suffering soldiers to “drink it off.” Some civilians in the defense dept feel the same way no doubt IMO, it’s why hardly anything is mentioned of PTSD until one of these violent episodes occurs. These people see PTSD as a cop-out or an excuse. First we need to have an understanding that PTSD actually is real before we can ever hope to help treat it (does anyone believe that being shot at or killing your fellow man is not going to affect you in some way either then or in the future?). I guess with the high soldier suicide rate before and after deployment kinda takes care of the complaints from coming in (so those who said he should have just killed himself, well that’s already happening ). What real ticked me off when I heard that the military was trying to say that some soldiers coming back from this war with PTSD or other psychological disorders had “Pre-Existing Conditions” and that the military would not pay to treat them, I think it has been corrected but what a bunch of asses they break you and don’t want to pay, amazing.<br /><br />The final issue is why does the military want to keep people in their ranks that no longer want to be there is it just sheer number? I mean is it ten percent, twenty percent. Is it that it is the only contract in the US that you can’t get out of unless to kill yourself or kill your fellow soldiers? It does not make any sense to me. <br /><br />I guess the Major could just be another wacko like Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nicholas, of course McVeigh was executed and apparently because Nicholas became a Christian he received a life sentenced. I real think if he gets that far the Major will get the former and not in a million years the latter.<br /><br />This is so messed up, hopefully they will make some changes that make sense.Montananoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119906447472922361.post-60532788990226239262009-11-09T10:17:31.294-08:002009-11-09T10:17:31.294-08:00His job was a psychiatrist debriefing those return...His job was a psychiatrist debriefing those returning from the horrors of war. His job over the last few years was to show empathy, concern and caring for those who are now permanently broken by the horrors of war. He broke because he was going to be sent to the source of these horrors, a source which he quite rightly despised. The cost of war is not simply counted in deaths and physical wounds, in fact I would say these pale into insignificance when held against the decades of mental pain by those who live through the experiences.<br /><br />My last job was as a social worker in a low-income building in downtown Portland. I've had too many experiences of brave men weeping uncontrollably, beyond consolation at the things they have seen and done in Vietnam. The cost to these people is just appalling, and never stops, but I also paid a cost. Simply listening to these sorts of events made me so ill over time that it threatened my marriage and took me several years to mostly overcome. The effects of war effect not only those directly involved but their family, their friends, their counselors, their social workers, and they do so for decades.<br /><br />I don't think it needs to be said that these killings are horrible and not forgivable. But the killer wasn't simply deranged, he was ill, broken, terrified, isolated and beyond seeing any good way out. That's what war does.Dan Binmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09631203781543243534noreply@blogger.com