Invisible wounds of war - West Coast Alert
Was an excellent story on "60 Minutes"
It is not that medicine found a way to point to physical brain damage among soldiers who returned home and who did not know what was wrong with them.
It is that someone raised millions of dollars to establish a state of the art facility that treats these troops. All he wanted was for the government to stay away and let him build the facility.
Fair enough
And yet, I can see some right wingers tea parties who say: you see, we don't need government to take care of the wounded troops. Private enterprise can do this.
Well, yes, but what happens when that enterprise loses its wealth in a stock market crush? Or just decides to stop playing, take the ball and go home?
It is the responsibility of our government to take care of our troops that were sent to fight based on our government orders. The government should have imposed special tax to support the war and it can still impose special tax to take care of our returning troops.
And, yes, I could not help thinking how criminal these orders were, still are.