FinnMacCool said:
I've just finished reading this article and I must say it was very interesting and informative. IT covers one of the most ignored and least looked upon cost of fighting; the demoralizing, tragic pyschological affects it has on all those who participate in war.
http://www.killology.com/article_psychological.htm
MacCool has never seen combat and war but he pointed to a very important aspect of war. It had been missed very in the most of debates . MacCool personally connected himself with the troops. MacCool is cool.
Please do not derail it, guys to WMD, Un Resolutions, abortions and other.
And everyone (who was there and was not there looked ) looked and expressed the same feelings.
Why. What for. For nothing.
The problem is, in my view, even if the war in Iraq was not debated, and everyone was sure it is the right war in the right time, - that would not change the feelings, the questions and the answers you all put here. It is still the same psychological effect, the same horrors. You have to kill, you have to die, and the worst of all you have to pick up pieces of bodies of your best buddies. The right cause does not change too much on personal level.
One of the things going on in Army, is that you do not exists there as a person, you exists there as a part of a unit, you are always watched over, you are leaning on persons in your unit as they are leaning on you, you may push yourself to die for them, your brothers, the cause comes the second. Also you are trained to do things, to exist automatically.
As soldiers leaning on each other and are parts of a unit, and the unit is part of troops, the troops can find support only in the nation. When a soldier comes home and find himself as a person, things fall through a hole. He has no support anymore ...well, it seems I am loosing the structure... have to go... it is very interesting to find some answers, I hope MacCool you will keep the debate when i get back.