One of the things that comes with age is the ability to remember a little of the past. I lived through the Vietnam Era and all he crap that went with it. I remember very well hearing returning soldiers speak of the civilians of Vietnam as gooks and slopes. It was a symptom of the stress that they had been under and the awful conditions their commanders sent them into.
Vietnam was a war where you couldn't tell who was the enemy. It could be a woman or a kid who hid the next gun or explosive. Sound familiar?
Iraq is exactally the same today, except they have sand not jungle, and they are involved in not only a civil war but a holy war. In both Vietnam and Iraq, we were in the middle and we didn't belong there. In the case of Iraq, we started a vicious war that has turned into something the critics predicted, a bloody civil/holy war with no good outcome.
Into this mess put our young men and women and what you get is an abundance of stress and problems. It's not because they are weak, it's because they shouldn't be there in the first place. They see the futility of the war and the "no way out" scenario our alleged President has created. No wonder combat related psychological problems are high.
What is unconscionable is the Pentagon trying to spin these problems as positive. Lou Dobbs lays it out for you.
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