I took it as a rambling stream of thought. I don't think there was supposed to be a correlation between the various thoughts. It's more a blog entry than a feature piece.
My takeaways: High suicide rate. We care deeply and splash the murders up on the news, but don't give the same care and attention to the suicide deaths. We really need to. That the press, and maybe the military, is avoiding talking about a potential real issue. The radicalization of Muslims in the military who disagree with the war. It's like we don't want to talk about it, for fear of uncovering a bigger issue, or for fear of causing pain to those we would then need to question (and potentially piss them off, too) when they don't deserve it. Kind of like the unwillingness to confront the sexual abuse in the Church. And that a Canadian expat living in England does not necessarily reflect my views. On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]>wrote: > > What is this wandering article's point? > > - That suicide rates are high in the military? > - That a murder was motivated by racial or ethnic issues? > - That the invasions of Iraq and Afganistan were unfounded? > > The article is like a huge run-on sentence of loosely related > arguments with a vauge suggestion that they each support the next. > > Mainly though, I fail to understand the connection between a high > suicide rate in the general (non-Islamic) military population and > radicalization of Islamic members of the military. > > Spaghetti - meet wall.... > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307415 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
