{"id":3158,"date":"2009-11-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/ptsd-and-pged-post-glory-exuberance-disorder\/"},"modified":"2017-03-27T14:12:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T13:12:37","slug":"ptsd-and-pged-post-glory-exuberance-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/11\/ptsd-and-pged-post-glory-exuberance-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"PTSD and PGED: Post Glory Exuberance Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington: <\/em>There is much talk about post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, these days.\u00a0 Yes, it must be tough to kill so many Afghans who fight secularism, Kabul and foreign soldiers dying for that fraudulent dictator Karzai, and invasions by some chess game drunk players.\u00a0 And<\/em>, at a risk of an IED, US$ 10 per piece, lethal, effective.\u00a0 And,<\/em> maybe with the sneaking doubt about the whole exercise, a stupid farce concocted in twisted Anglo-American minds filled with Russia-China-Muslim-free pipe-lines and bases for, just in case, a war with China.\u00a0 With no real proof that 9\/11 was made in Afghanistan<\/em>, nor that Al Qaeda needs that place.\u00a0 To fight that war carries triple trauma.\u00a0 They need that spiritual fitness center on the Fort Hood Resiliency Campus (WP<\/em>, Nov. 16 2009).<\/p>\n

Not strange that the soldiers collapse. They desert massively.\u00a0 And may take it out on their families.\u00a0 Or on themselves in the mounting suicide rate.\u00a0 As walking veteran time bombs in minefield USA, still with unexploded Vi\u00eat Nam veterans as PTSD devices.\u00a0 Fresh loads coming.\u00a0 A sign of health: they are still human.<\/p>\n

15,000 of the soldiers in\u00a0 the US army are among the 2,3 million US Muslims.\u00a0 They signed up for an Obama-administration fighting four Muslim countries at the same time, Iraq-Pakistan-Afghanistan directly with some local assistance; Palestine indirectly via Israel as arms-money-veto supplier. In addition threatening Iran with obliteration in case they aim at s second strike capability.\u00a0 Yemen, Somalia, solidly Muslim.\u00a0 Maybe not psyche strange if some of them see this as a war against Islam?<\/p>\n

One of them a psychiatrist, Major Nidal Hasan.\u00a0 Maybe weird, maybe psychiatrized into innocence.\u00a0 But imagine listening to a litany of PTSD of soldiers reporting not only the fear of being killed, but the pain of killing countless Muslims.\u00a0 Just imagine.<\/p>\n

He issued a warning: give US muslims the conscientious objection option (WP<\/em> Nov 10, 2009).\u00a0 Ignored. The rest is history.<\/p>\n

That country, fighting for Western values, will conclude a twisted court case focused on behavior only, not on the underlying agony of any Muslim whose duty it is to defend Islam when trampled upon with a death penalty; bringing the war into the court room like the Obama administration plans for some court close to Ground Zero in Manhattan.\u00a0 Predictable all, and predictably useless for individual and general prevention.\u00a0 But not for producing martyrs.<\/p>\n

And yet there is something worse than the post-traumatic stress disorder made by USA<\/em> and acted out in USA.\u00a0 The post glory exuberance disorder<\/em> is acted out abroad and then made in USA<\/em> with ticker tape parades and war tribe dances around flag poles for one more annual glory, the unconditional surrender by some somebody.\u00a0 The exuberance disorder of that invincible, exceptionalist one.<\/p>\n

Obama, concerned with nuclear arms, could counteract PGED by letting a deed follow his many words: visit to Hiroshima.\u00a0 Yes, we did it, I wish it could be undone<\/em>.\u00a0 Invitation declined, “this time”.\u00a0 Instead he adds the 4th fleet for Latin America, nuclear of the “neither confirm nor deny variety”, to the 7 Colombia bases against narco-traffic, terrorism and anti-US governments.\u00a0 And the Tlatelolco treaty?\u00a0 A US breach will encourage others. And we are in the midst of a nuclear arms race rather than any reduction.<\/p>\n

And no word about the demand side of narcotics, following in the footsteps of those demanding Plan Colombia with no Plan USA.<\/p>\n

The Goldstone report is a magnificent invitation to multilateral diplomacy on Israel-Palestine, a miracle of double-sidedness.\u00a0 A golden chance to remove that stone blocking the articulation of the issue toward solution, like for Korea opening for a nuclear free Middle East, and Korean peninsula.\u00a0 But no.\u00a0 Nuclear bilateralism is the formula.\u00a0 Is the guy a fake?
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\nUnited States of America, please remember your own history.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once upon a time 13 colonies-states on the Atlantic seaboard were peopled by Albion’s Seed<\/em> (a remarkable book), Puritans from East Anglia, Quakers from Bradford, from Devonshire 402 years ago to Jamestown VA, the border riff-raff relegated to inner domains;\u00a0 all run by a London-appointed governor for English self-benefit.<\/p>\n

They merged<\/em> those states, they united, 1776-1789-1812, from Declaration to Independence. Deal with us as a whole<\/em>, no more divide et impera<\/em>, you London.\u00a0 And London, slowly, learnt.<\/p>\n

USA, maybe you inspired somebody?\u00a0 Maybe Latin America and the Caribbean are now at the same stage in history?\u00a0 Maybe so is Africa, with no country wanting to host your Africom<\/em>, leaving that role to servile Germans in Stuttgart?\u00a0 Maybe East Asia wants the two Chinas, two Koreas, two Japans as a whole?\u00a0 Maybe one day the Middle East will get a fit of sanity, opting for a community of Israel with the five neighboring Arab states?\u00a0 And Central Asia, Afghanistan with 7-8 surrounding Muslim countries, the five former Soviet “stans”, Iran, Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, maybe even the Valley should India practice democracy?\u00a0 And–even more–a Russian union that could include the non-Russians on equal terms, with Byelorussia and half of Ukraine–a huge whole?\u00a0 You, Washington.<\/p>\n

All coming.\u00a0 USA, can you deny others what you made yourself?<\/em> Why not rather help them, give institutional advice, do not leave that to the Europeans alone.\u00a0 Make them your friends, do not try to turn the time machine of history backward.\u00a0 Do not rest on past glory letting that exuberance run away with you.\u00a0 Rather, reach out, find friends close to you.\u00a0 There is a Latin America but also an English America, with you, Canada and into the Caribbean.\u00a0 With Mexico as a bridge.\u00a0 Celebrate this new turn of history.<\/p>\n

What belongs together should grow together, like the Germanies 20 years ago.\u00a0 President Obama: it is unbecoming for you to act as a latter day George III trying to stop the inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington: There is much talk about post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, these days.\u00a0 Yes, it must be tough to kill so many Afghans who fight secularism, Kabul and foreign soldiers dying for that fraudulent dictator Karzai, and invasions by some chess game drunk players.\u00a0 And, at a risk of an IED, US$ 10 per piece, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}