Many American troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are suffering severe psychological problems such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Social Pathology, Press TV reports...
Jan 21, 2012
Many American troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq are suffering severe psychological problems such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Social Pathology, Press TV reports.
“They [soldiers] are overstretched, and in many ways they are demoralized. The demoralization is what you see in these terrible social pathologies,” Dr. Webster Griffin Tarpley said in an interview with Press TV.
He added that “the statistics that we have heard today continue a long-established pattern - a lot of it has to do with PTSD like the old shell shock.”
According to Dr. Tarpley, a study of female soldiers returning from Iraq shows that they suffer more from non-combat incidents than actual wartime trauma.
“The finding is that a female soldier in Iraq specifically was more in danger of being sexually assaulted by another member of the Armed Forces than she was from hostile actions, as well as from sexual abuse from their comrades,” Dr. Tarpley concluded.
The US invaded Afghanistan in 2001 under the pretext of toppling the Taliban regime, claiming that the militants have refused to hand over Osama bin Laden.
The US also invaded Iraq in 2003 under the excuse of destroying alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) belonging to former dictator Saddam Hussein.
Many civilians, including women and children, have been killed as a result of these wars.
The US-led war in Afghanistan, with civilian and military casualties at record highs, has become the longest war in the US history.
Insecurity across Afghanistan continues to escalate despite the presence of tens of thousands of foreign troops in the country.
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