war comes home

[kandrathe]

In terms of safety of the American people the US army would have been wiser to invest in a few 100 shrinks to support soldiers that came home from Iraq instead of 5 apache helicopters.

The article says that soldiers intentionally lie on their release forms to avoid the shrinks. It is pretty hard to help people who don't seek it or want it, and other than keep track of every soldiers "kill" record and then force them to go through counseling I'm not sure what could be done.

You are right though, that every "shooting" war has seen the return of some small percentage of soldiers whose minds are troubled. I found another discussion of the same article on a blog.

I'm feeling more like the guy who says, "A anti-military diatribe with no facts but does feed their readers preconceptions about the military."