WashPost: Our Wounded Troops all Drunks, Substance Abusers

Men's News Daily ^ | 9/2/07 | Warner Todd Huston

[Alkhin]

Im appalled that I share the same major with this POS.

Can I tear up my college diploma now? Do I really need it anymore?????

[syriacus]

Stillman starts by describing a bar fight in an establishment near Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and relating that such fights are far too common of late.

Bar fights often occur in tens of thousands of towns around the world.

Here are just a few of the results of a Google news search for the phrase bar fight

3 shot in Manchester bar fight
Four indicted in killing
Man arrested following bar fight
Fire company now defendant in fight that killed fire chief
Mistrial for officer accused in stabbing
Man jailed after fight at bar
Man pleads to manslaughter in bar stabbing
Man gets 15-30 years in prison in fatal shooting after bar fight
Glass carafe used as a weapon in bar fight

The phrase "bar fights" brings up an interesting article from Middle America -- Altercations in Lawrence [Kansas] become the norm: Thinking about starting a bar fight? Bring your Nikes.

[ClaireSolt]

PTSD is the new cause celeb. Right up there with global warming. It will be very expensive. The VA didn’t know how to diagnose or treat it. When I got it, I read that it lasts for life. I found ways to get over it, but the bureaucrats never will. They will just milk it.

[magellan]

Do you ever wonder what causes this angry radical feminism, especially in someone only 23 years old? I mean, this young woman is so pi$$ed off at men, she pursued an undergraduate degree in anthropology so she could pursue a PhD studying why men are the cause of all the problems women face in the world.

I don't that level of anger is normal. I have to wonder if she was abused or seriously neglected as child.

Of course, she may have just been raised by hippies.

[navyguy]

This is nothing but an attempt to use vets as sheild while she attacks Bush. Typical intellectual cowardice of the left.

[avacado]

"Emma Goldman"

Holy Cow! Anyone who knows the Emma Goldman story knows that this Sarah Stillman is a wacko!

[Alkhin]

I think thats the key though, isnt it? Each person has their own coping mechanisms, but we all eventually find ways to deal with it. I think its a real thing and not just a military phenomenon - think of how accidents and traumatic events affect others...I mean, for petes sake, I was having nightmares months after 9-11!! And having to deliver my preemie daughter was traumatic enough that I had 'reverberations' for years.

I so agree with you: the bureaucrats don't give a damn about helping others with finding coping mechanisms - its just another money making thing with them. They capitalize on human weakness, they dont serve foster human strength.

[KeyLargo]

Should read:

“News columnists and reporters all Drunks, Substance Abusers”

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

“Anyone who knows the Emma Goldman story knows that this Sarah Stillman is a wacko!”

I didn’t, but I do now.....both are America-haters of the highest order:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman

[Psycho_Bunny]

She’s just a little snot. Why would anyone care what she thinks?

[B4Ranch]

She’s young and dumb.

[submarinerswife]

Bookmark for later projectile vomiting

[Will88]

“Sarah Stillman recently graduated summa cum laude from Yale with an M.A. and B.A. in Anthropology. Now a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, she is currently writing her PhD thesis on the media phenomenon that pundits have acerbically called the “Missing Pretty White Girl Syndrome”—exploring our endless appetites for young women like JonBenet Ramsey, Natalee Holloway, and Elizabeth Smart.”

I’m afraid Ms. Stillman represents a typical product of today’s Ivy League schools, at least in their liberal arts and humanities departments, and apparently Anthropology, wherever that fits at Yale.

[KeyLargo]

Hosea Sanders Returns to Air in Chicago

“WLS-Channel 7 morning news anchor Hosea Sanders, who took a monthlong leave of absence for substance abuse treatment, is back on the air,” Jim Ritter wrote last Monday in the Chicago Sun-Times.

“Sanders was scheduled today to co-anchor the top-rated ‘ABC 7 News This Morning’ alongside Judy Hsu.

“’He got the help he needed,’ said station spokeswoman Jayme Nicholas. ‘The station supports him, and we’re very happy he’s back.’”

“. . . Sanders, 47, went on leave Nov. 3 after two men with a history of drug arrests were arrested for allegedly trying to blackmail him. Chicago Police said the men threatened to expose details about Sanders’ personal life and substance abuse unless he paid them $5,000.”

http://www.maynardije.org/columns/dickprince/041105_prince/

[avacado]

Yep, she [Emma Goldman] got her commie butt deported to Russia and found out that communism sucked so bad that she lived the rest of her days in Europe trying to get back into the good ol’USofA!

[an amused spectator]

Washington Post columnist, Sarah Stillman, has penned the sort of pretentious column that is blind for its self-indulgence and foolishly extrapolates the author's singular experience as one ubiquitous or as a universal representation of our soldier's lives once back in the states.

I call this "The Tyranny of the Anecdote". It's a favorite method of the Left for invoking "Oh, the humanity!" and then going on to paint the world their way in broad brushstrokes.

It's usually a good sign that the writer is lying like a rug...

[VOA]

bump for publicity

[hdstmf]

She is now 23 and STILL living in the sheltered world of academia. A mind is a terrible thing to waste...

[calex59]

Stillman starts by describing a bar fight in an establishment near Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and relating that such fights are far too common of late.

This is the dumbest statement she made. Soldiers(and marines and airman and sailors and coastguardsmen)have bar fights. When I was in the army, in Germany, no war was going on and there were bar fights every weekend. I guess we were stressed because we were having to live in a country where it was easy to get booze, and women, and things were relatively nice. What a jerk this woman(dare I use that term?)is.