The General's Daughter answered that question: Betrayal

Back in 2005, my friend and teaching partner returned from her deployment. She was in the throes of PTSD the entire academic year from having to put together the broken bodies of our fighting forces , but much better after her summer break the next year.

The thing she said repeatedly and with great pain, is that citizens do not know the GOOD things we were doing in the ME because it never got coverage.

Well, I turned on the news and whaddaya think is happening NOW? Yeah. You got it. There is all kinds of coverage of the 'humanitarian missions' we are carrying out in the ME.

Fuck.

Our fighting forces were flagrantly punished by the media because of who their COC was. And now there is all this new found publicity about humanitarian aid we are giving because the media approves of this COC who simply will not deal effectively with the issue of this war. Go figure.

It is becoming increasingly deadly for our troops. So what is the plan? It doesn't seem there is one.

No doubt, the usual partisan ravings will be posted here. No surprises. But you know, it just sucks when it was your friends who were betrayed by the US media for 8, count 'em, 8 years!

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And exactly how, pray tell, were our troops 'betrayed' by the US media? Please be very specific.

I see you still have that difficulty reading.

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I see you went to a lot of trouble to create a thread whose main point you can't even support. You haven't shown any betrayal.

Strange world we live in.

Anyone with a shred of empathy can see the damage that years of character assasination can do, and this is why you don't give publicity to those who do err in their service.

We destroyed an entire generation coming home from Vietnam, apparently once wasn't enough.

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January 21, 2013: The End of an ERROR.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic."
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
---Benjamin Franklin

Not this hyperbolic crap again.

We simply haven't 'destroyed a generation' coming home from Vietnam, and it's not occurring now.

The vast, vast majority of that the generations represented by those who primarily fought in VN never were in the military and never went, so on the very face of it, your claim is ridiculous.

You are exactly right. The damage done to that generation is immeasurable and I don't mean in terms of individuals alone. The families of those who survived that debacle have lived with men who are not the same men they were before they were sent to Viet Nam. IMNSHO, the media engineered the abuse that those men took during AND after the war. They for the most part are either ice men, drug addicts, volatile explosive maniacs, or suicides. That kind of thing is SO injurious to the entire family. So, yes, and entire GENERATION suffered the manipulations of the media during VN.

The media is the ultimate hypocrite and the ultimate persecutor. I don't know why people still give ANY credence to them at all.

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Go ahead and cite the data that backs up the most of those who went to VN are "ice men, drug addicts, volatile explosive maniacs, or suicides".

I won't hold my breath.I don't know why people give any credence to those who overlook that the only ones who betrayed our troops were those who sent them over there, in the first place, and did so without preparing and equipping them properly.

The ultimate hypocrites are those who refuse to recognize this simple fact.

woulkd that we appreciated what these men and women did on our behalf...

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Well that's what happens when you have media politicizing the war. It seems like it's become popular to use the war and its fighting men and women as a battering rams against what ever party is in office.

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"Democracy passes into despotism." - Plato

Don't hold your breath!

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I wouldn't expect a troll like you who lives his life guarding some bridge to have a clue about any of this. AS a matter of fact, I haven't seen you have a clue about much of anything.

http://www.olive-drab.com/od_history...m_veterans.php

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1460153

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal...accno=ED311493

http://www.i-served.com/v-v-a-r.org/...ia_part01.html

http://www.i-served.com/v-v-a-r.org/...ia_part01.html

http://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/12.asp

http://www.radicalpsychology.org/vol7-1/mendible.html

http://psy.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/...ract/22/11/931

http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&gl=us

Now go piss up a rope you jackass.

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Where have you seen all this good news? All I see is blood still. Just not much blame for the current commander anymore. Still blaming Bush of course.

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"To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his father has acquired too much, in order to spare to others who (or whose fathers) have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, "to guarantee to everyone a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it."

-Thomas Jefferson

thank God its honor that drives them. pretty sad its in so little evidence in the media and politics.

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Socialism doesn't create a rising tide that lifts all boats. It drains the lake and teaches the boat riders not to help themselves by rowing.

Jesus loves you, allah wants you dead

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

Ayn Rand

Thanks for all those links.

Unfortunately for you, none of them support your contention that they are "for the most part are either ice men, drug addicts, volatile explosive maniacs, or suicides."

The only jackass here is the one making histrionic claims she can't support.