Posted on 04/04/2002 3:26:34 PM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
American servicemen at Guantanamo Bay are so angry about the superior treatment given to the terrorist detainees that the military is sending in shrinks to try to prevent explosions of "inexplicable rage."
The al-Qaeda and Taliban fanatics at Camp X-Ray have received better treatment than the U.S. troops guarding and caring for them, despite all the whining from European and U.S. left-wingers, International Red Cross, United Nations and other blame-America-first types.
In fact, the Miami Herald reported today, the Muslim detainees:
enjoyed showers weeks earlier than the Americans, who had to make do with a garden hose.
scream at, spit on and hurl water at the servicemen, who are "working nearly nonstop."
''They did those atrocities to us, and we're treating them like royalty,'' fumed Marine Lance Cpl. Nathan Howell.
The Pentagon is suddenly concerned about its mistreatment of the servicemen. It fears they might "later explode with seemingly inexplicable rage - at their work or their families," the Herald reported.
The attempt at a solution: A special Navy psychiatric team is counseling and debriefing each of the estimated 1,000 Marines, soldiers and sailors at the compound.
''Many of them feel the detainees are being treated better than they are,'' said Cmdr. Karen Daly, a Navy psychiatrist and officer in charge of the Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team, which has begun making rounds.
But our men and women in uniform are leery.
"Officially, the military culture embraces the concept of mental healthcare. But other parts of military culture teach people to button up their emotions and do their jobs," the Herald reported. "Daly said she learned since coming to the base that some Marines refer to psychiatrists as 'wizards' and caution each other, 'Never talk to a wizard.'"
I have a better solution: Let the soldiers have 5 minutes per day to do with the Al Qaeda as they wish.
If it was not for our vast technological superiority these days, we would not win one war anywhere on this globe.
Maybe even -- in spite of that -- we may not ever again.
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