{"id":248,"date":"2012-06-09T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=248"},"modified":"2023-07-25T21:11:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T02:11:29","slug":"the-dangers-of-combat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2012\/06\/09\/the-dangers-of-combat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers Of Combat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A New York Times article reports that more of our soldiers are dying as a result of suicide than from enemy fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">This finding disturbs me.&nbsp; It seems to suggest that we&#8217;re not giving sufficient attention to the well-being of our soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Given that we&#8217;ve been curtailing services for our soldiers, such a result isn&#8217;t altogether surprising.&nbsp; We seem to be trying to save money by telling our soldiers that they no longer need medical or psychological treatment, rather than actually taking steps to help them heal.&nbsp; Health care by &#8220;fiat&#8221; doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The US has consistently failed to live up to its promises to its soldiers, apparently starting with the Vietnam War.&nbsp; They&#8217;ve come back broken and bleeding, and we&#8217;ve told them to carry on, stiff upper lip, etc.&nbsp; Thanks for putting your life on the line for us, sorry you got hurt, now fuck off and die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Medical care is expensive.&nbsp; Psychiatric care is even more expensive.&nbsp; If you want to save money, cutting these services is the way to go &#8211; it eliminates a huge source of expenses.&nbsp; Unfortunately, it costs us even more in the long run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We may save money &#8211; maybe lots of money &#8211; but we&#8217;re killing our soldiers.&nbsp; This cost-cutting is killing more soldiers than our enemies are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York Times article reports that more of our soldiers are dying as a result of suicide than from enemy fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}