News With Nezua | In Pieces or In Peace
AS THE UNITED STATES prepares to send tens of thousands more young men and women into the “Grave of Empires,” as Afghanistan has long been called, the violence wrought by war begins to infect the human and global state in unexpected ways.
AS THE UNITED STATES prepares to send tens of thousands more young men and women into the “Grave of Empires,” as Afghanistan has long been called, the violence wrought by war begins to infect the human and global state. Can we file the tragic and violent rampage that Major Nadal Malik Hasan exploded into under “Jihad,” and be done? Should we attribute his breakdown as “PTSD” and let it go? Or would we learn more as a People if we heed his despair, his oft-articulated anguish at watching the nation he fights for bring ruin on a people whose faith and lineage he shares? Does this make a larger statement about the US and her wars of imperialism that we might heed? Can the United States can go forward in peace, or will she carve herself into tiny pieces by assuming the military desires of the Pentagon are the shared goals of every person?
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Tags: Afghanistan, Anguish, Conflict, Graveyard of Empires, Hegemony, Jihad, Major Nadal Malik Hasan, Mental Health, Multicultural, PTSD, Terrorism, US, Violence, Wars
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