On a recent 60 Minutes, they did a segment on a program called Operation: Proper Exit, which takes soldiers suffering from PTSD back to Iraq to get closure. While I am a firm believer in therapy and doing what we can to repair the mental and physical wounds of our soldiers, I couldn't help feel like this was a high profile gesture of extraordinary compassion extended to a select few. We shouldn't have been there in the first place, but what's done is done. First, we need to think about how to more evenly take care of the hoards of veterans with problems. And Second, we need to rethink war, defense and armies because there is no way to fix a broken soldiers and we can't afford to give every soldier the kind of closure that Operation: Proper Exit may offer. This war has been marred by reports of poor or misuse of limited resources and to me this is just one more example. We need to cut our loses, get out, decide how best to treat and care for our veterans.
Millennials, we need to think different. We can do better.
Millennials, we need to think different. We can do better.