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Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists
nytimes.com - 19 days ago
Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists
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Painful Stories Take a Toll on Military Therapists

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The Wide Awake Cafe:  On the Terror and the Terrorist at Fort Hood

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Brian Levin, J.D.: The Ft. Hood Massacre: A Lone-Wolf Jihad of One?

Jihad Watch:  Fitzgerald: Major Hasan and the Fog of War

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On the Terror and the Terrorist at Fort Hood
The Wide Awake Cafe — ... any discussion to the possible merits of connecting the shooting at Ft. Hood to terrorism. Incredible… The news media immediately sought out the relatives of Major Nidal Malik Hasan to get their response and it was typical. Hasan was a gentle soul said his cousin. He had been harrassed by his fellow soldiers said his aunt. Hence, the template: America is to blame. We can’t be trusted to come to our own conclusions. The New York Times followed the template like a ballet dancer practicing her choreography. ...

Brian Levin, J.D.: The Ft. Hood Massacre: A Lone-Wolf Jihad of One?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... As Islamophobes and armchair analysts jump to their own simple conclusions on Hasan, his personal dislocations and fears likely played a significant mutating role in his eventual spiral toward violence. These include fear and conflict over an impending first deployment, unresolved distress over the loss of his mother, difficulties with his colleagues and in finding a mate, a cross-country move, and repeated exposure to traumatized soldiers. After two of the main support systems that he knew all his life, namely job and family failed him, ...

Fitzgerald: Major Hasan and the Fog of War
Jihad Watch — ... they treat." #3. "Major Hasan was one of a thin line of military therapists trying to hold off a rising tide of need....nightmares, panic attacks...many military professionals, meanwhile, describe crushing schedules with 10 or more patients a day, most struggling with devastating trauma or mutilated bodies that are the product of war and the highly advanced care that kept them alive...some of those hired to heal others end up needing help themselves..." -- From the New York Sunday Times (Duranty Times), November 8, 2009, p. 23 This is what ...