Let's All Come Home and Stay There

Bob Woodruff, the ABC reporter who was badly wounded in Iraq three years ago, has gone back to report the war and especially the experiences of those who have suffered traumatic head injuries. His story raises a number of important and perhaps disturbing issues, in the light of Chris Hedges' remarkable War is a Force that Gives us Meaning. Clearly Woodruff is a brave and committed journalist who should be commended for his concern for the injured soldiers and Marines. But I can't help wondering why someone who has suffered so would want to potentially put himself and his family through such trauma (or worse) again. And of course this also raises the question of the much higher number of survivors of horrific wounds that would have in past conflicts almost certainly been fatal. Another in a long line of reasons to Get the Hell Out of Iraq Now --

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