Reply #5: War destroys people, the ones who fight it and the ones [View All]

[Warpy]

who get in the way, either physically or mentally or sometimes both.

That's the main reason war is to be avoided if at all possible. It's the reason our military should be one of national defense, not foreign adventurism backed by corporations, fat cats, and the geopolitical theorists who invariably turn out to be WRONG.

Denial never helped anyone and denial never avoided the wars that destroyed them. Yet the VA continues to deny anything happened, that war is nothing out of the ordinary, and if the body survived, the soldier is OK. Besides, treating the shattered souls who return might cost a few bucks, money that would have to be wrested from the sainted rich because the rest of us are tapped out.

And people wonder why we are angry at the present maladministration.