Have you ever wondered if perhaps our troops’s “PTSD”* is good and right?
We send them out to “defend our country” and to “uphold freedom” & “defend the Constitution” pressing upon them the extreme morality and justness of our cause... yet when they return what do they see? TSA screening & no-knock SWAT raids which blatantly violate the 4th amendment, the guy in NJ who was jailed [with a 7 yr sentence] for transporting his own firearms, talk of the ‘fairness doctrine’ & ‘net neutrality’, complacency when wikileaks put out military information but swift action when Dept of State memos were released AND the founder boasted that he had a hard-drive from a high-level bank executive (proof that either those that are politically connected OR those with large amounts of money are inherently more valuable to the government than the soldiers who are putting their lives on the line)... yeah, I think they have a right to be pissed and/or screwed up.
*I think that perhaps too much is lumped into the label of PTSD; certainly the broad range of symptoms cannot facilitate correct diagnoses.
Well, yes there is much hypocracy in our country for sure. But until we are on the front lines, when at any moment all of our worldly dreams and love of family could be ended in a second...then it is hard to know how badly these troopers are effected. It is not easy.