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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
You'd do an article on the science, you'd do an article on the neurochemical system that underlies the phenomenon of conditioned fear. That article Salon did before was bullshit. It stopped short of the actual science. You got to the science and mumbled something about chemical receptors, and stopped because you had to stop otherwise you'd enter into a subject that is censored here at Salon.
Salon was foreced to obfuscate the science on PTSD because the root cause of PTSD, and the most likely cure for PTSD (the one armies have been employing for thousands of years), are subjects that are simply too dangerous for the Democrats to even talk about openly right now.
There's just all kinds of people right now who are letting down soldiers and other people afflicted with PTSD.
You're letting them down because you have your own war going -- the war to get Democrats elected.
You've got the PTSD soldiers enlisted in YOUR war -- and so you can't afford to endanger that war by digging too deeply into the root neurochemical cause of their suffering and the most obvious chemical cure.
You know, I hate having to write things like this. But you're supposed to be promoting knowledge.
When it comes to PTSD, because of the politics, all you end up spreading is more ignorance.
I'm against ignorance, even when it's useful to the Democrats.
And by the way -- I've had chronic PTSD since I was about twelve years old.
And from that point of view -- I spit on you and your politically convenient ignorance and your feigned concern for people with PTSD.
Those who profit from war have always found religion, race and patriotism to be effective tools for marketing war.
The nice thing about slyly afixing the religion and the race labels to the effort is the ability to label opponents as not being against war, but against the religion and the race.
it is about war.
...who allegedly spat on the Viet Nam vets and the vets who fielded that spit. The author couldn't find them and concluded that the stories, however ubiquitous, are apocryphal. Although spurious, they serve an essential function in squelching dissent. Like other Salon readers, I squirm when I see the yellow ribbon on an SUV. I urge all vets' organizations to target such beribboned vehicles. Stop them and procure donations. Stop them again and again and procure more and more money. After all, if such people truly support the troops, they will give and give.
Sadly, I can assure all that if vets' organizations started stopping beribboned SUVs, their owners would remove the stickers. They support the troops in much the same way as the proselytizing alleged Christian who steps over the homeless man supports the tenets of the Christ: with syllables.
Former 1CD member here, '93-'96. I was going to write pretty much what you wrote.
I'd love to come back later and see that this thread remains relatively free from yet another manifestation of this tired line of guilty-by-association, coulda-woulda-shoulda, every-bit-as-dumb-and-rabid-as-the-far-right sort of thinking.
Kindly keep it so.
There is nothing wrong with having a military to defend your country.
There is something wrong with wars that are not in defense of your country.
There is something wrong with using religion, race and patriotism to sell war.
I don't blame the soldiers, I blame the war profiteers. The fact that these soldiers are in this predicament is indictative of both a lack of opportunity and education. The onus is on our culture and the public education system.
I believe that rather than subsidizing multibillion dollar weapons systems that the money should be used to take care of our soldiers especially the wounded ones.
You should be less worried about make believe enemies and more concerned with the fact that this nonsense has bankrupted the country and red china holds enough dollars to effectively control our economy as a result of both this war nonsense, walmart and globalization.
You don't even know who the enemy is.
Back in 2001 or 2002, I could tell that George W. Bush has utter contempt for anyone who chooses to serve in the American military. 'Support the troops' is an empty, meaningless slogan that actually means 'Vote for George W. Bush as Supreme and Eternal Emperor of the World'.
I suspect that this medical "re-evaluation" has been going on for a long time.
I did a 3-yr enlistment in the Army in the early 1960s.
With only several months left on my enlistment I was assigned to a combat unit.
I thought this odd because I had a medical "profile" -- my poor vision -- that restricted me to support roles by the Army's own rules. I said nothing because I had only months to go before separation.
When I got separated I found a "medical re-evaluation" in my medical file that stated that I had been examined at the base hospital by 3 doctors and that my medical profile had been changed from C to A. Fact is I never met these doctors nor had ever set foot in the base hospital.
I made sure that this document disappeared from my file before I went into my 5-yr reserve status. And I lost all respect for Army doctors who obviously are the worst kind of professional whores.
This sort of thing was common in the push across France in WW2 if we are to believe our military historians.
However, the American military must be careful in questioning manhood.
They can't say, "What are you? Queer?"
For regardless of the soldier's sexuality, such a query points a finger to the exit.
One paints oneself into such corners when one loves war and hates homosexual citizens.
This situation of our Military and this President sending those troops who already show signs of PTSD and even real physical injuries, as I have witnessed already, back to Iraq and or into the field is just disgusting..
These are our sisters and brothers our cousins and sons and daughters or cousins husband in my case..
They are us..not separate but us, We The People..
This President also wants to cut housing for the disabled by just short of half and cut the health benefits that were on line to go to our nations children..so he'll pay for this war on the backs of the poor and those most in need and vulnerable..
Bush has to maintain his immoral inequitable out of whack Tax Cuts for those of the top 5 and really 1%..
Our Corporations contribute only 7% to our Tax base and employ just barely 20% of our population, but we send our sons and daughter to die for these corporations and their ghoulish supplicants like Cheney and Bush's rotten corrupt associates..
These Corporations care nothing of America or it's long term well being as is record, and they will even commit outright treason and sell our military technology to the enemy and of course dual use technology as well..
We just saw this treason in the instance of ITT..
Now what can be done Our Congress is in cahoots with these villains, all to many of them and the Republicans hide their deceit as they hide behind the Troops..
Where should be bury our dead those who are dying for this Corporate Cash Cow of Iraq..in Arlington or outside Halliburton headquarters in Dubai..
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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