It's wrong and perhaps some will think this is an excuse but what do you expect? These are guys over here doing three, sometimes four or five tours of duty in one of the worst wars in modern history. I have a client who did several tours there as a medic. He wishes he could have been sent to Iraq instead. Says it's a party over there in comparison.
Now imagine, these guys are fighting day in and day out against a gruesome enemy. One willing to behead people, torture women, use little children as bait. They walk around in a perpetual state of heightened anxiety. Many come home with PTSD and if they don't end up waterboarding their children, burning their wives to death, gunning down a bunch of people or killing themselves, they are sent back, with PTSD, to do yet another tour:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...rs-and-soldiers-waterboarding-their-kids.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...the-armys-terrible-ptsd-treatment-record.html
http://silencedmajority.blogs.com/s...an-in-trouble-for-waterboarding-daughter.html
Peeing on the bodies of the enemy is probably the least of what some do.
We expect these young men to come out of these situations unscathed and to act normally and sanely at all times under such circumstances. I think that's a ridiculous expectation.
Bring em' home. And when they get here, treat them with dignity. Treat their mental and physical health issues with the seriousness they deserve and with the understanding and gratitude for what those boys lost over there and will never recover. :twocents:
