CNN has that headline on its site at the moment. They've consulted a lawyer and a neuropsychologist to tell us that the poor bastard who snapped and went on a kill spree in Afghanistan might have been suffering from "stress".
No shit.
We shouldn't need lawyers and neuropsychologists to figure that out.
It's stressful to have to leave your family behind for months on end? Who knew?
It's stressful to be assigned to a foreign land and risk your life every sleeping and waking moment just by being there? Who knew?
It's stressful to spend months wondering if the next step you take will be your last? Who knew?
It's stressful to wonder every waking moment if the guy you're training plans to kill you?
So a guy breaks under the stress and all of a sudden we need a lawyer and a neuropsychologist to figure out that there is stress in these missions?
Given enough stress, I'm guessing every one of us could commit such an act.
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