Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas is home to the military reintegration center for those who have been held captive. It is good to know that the military doesn’t just pat you on the ass and tell you to run along home to your family. All sorts of emotional issues must be on the front burner and need attention. Not to sound too much like the Showtime blockbuster, Homeland, but the issues are many, part due to treatment by captors and the other part, the human condition.
Islamic factions 101: Why they fight?
Surely there is more to it than this. More people have been killed in the name of God or whatever people choose to call their supreme being deity than for any other reason. This one seems stranger than all the others. It is all over the successors to Allah. Surely all the conflict can’t be over this?
Where do riches, water rights in a desert country, haves over have-nots come in to play? Afraid I will never understand the stupidity of all this killing, regardless of what is written. I don’t understand the extremism or the willingness to annihilate.
I expect western culture probably is the real cause. Had we left things alone and not tried to carve up the middle east after WWI, perhaps things would be different and that includes Palestine and Israel.
Then there is the notion, as far as Iraq is concerned, that if you go in and bust up someone else’s country over something that isn’t really there, then you reap what you sow. Yea, Saddam Hussein was a brutal monster. So was Tito. However, there is something to be said for someone who goes in and says, if you fight, I will kill you. They do, he does, and point made.
