Not that I am a great believer in the NYT. But the story does have the "look and feel" of actual PTSD, so the essence is correct.
Now this could have been anticipated by anyone who paid attention to Vietnam. It is not new news: It is same old. And PTSD casualties from the Iraq war itself is not new either. I don't mean this is a bad article. It is a good article. But now, only now, four and a half years in, the NYT is printing something like this. So what is going on here?
We are getting a new narrative.
This, from page 2 of the linked article:
military health care officials are seeing a spectrum of psychological issues, with an estimated half of the returning National Guard members, 38 percent of soldiers and 31 percent of marines reporting mental health problems, according to a Pentagon task force.
Those percentages are staggeringly high, and probably reflect only a fraction of the actual cases. Talk about sowing dragons' teeth . . .
