US Soldiers Before the Mirror of Psychology: A Defeated Face and a Poor Will
Regarding the U.S. army, it appears that after its defeat in Iraq, the only window to achieve victory remains in Hollywood movies, Rambo displays, Schwarzenegger’s oppression and computer games. In reality, however, we found it to be a psychologically defeated, weak-kneed, depressed army that is also drowned in post-traumatic disorders!
The U.S. soldier, withdrawing from Iraq while carrying a badge of victory and seeming happy, most closely resembles a rooster that dances because it is in pain after its slaughter.
Fadhl Shimi, a doctor specializing in psychological and mental illnesses, said while speaking about this subject to the Al-Manar network that “in every war, regardless of its kind or where it occurs, psychological preparation for the soldiers to put on the masks (and positive motives) to get into the war occur parallel to military, technological and logistical preparations.”
Portraying the War as a Humanitarian Act.
U.S. politicians, along with numerous psychologists and psychiatrists, have worked on this subject. They led soldiers to believe that what they were doing was a humanitarian act to rid the Iraqi people from tyrants, to spread “democracy and peace” in Iraq and to also protect the greatest country that unilaterally rules or controls the world.
And here comes their slogan, nationally speaking, if we have not added it already:
– eradicating the alleged weapons of mass destruction
– ridding nations from terrorism, whose roots go back to the play 9/11 and its aftermath. They instilled the U.S. people with feelings of hate against Muslims and Arabs, especially after those people's false and unjust portrayal to the world as terrorists.
Dr. Shimi believes that these and other feelings formed a thin cover or artificial incentives for military work. The truth was discovered soon thereafter, and the feelings of numerous people came crashing down.
There were no weapons of mass destruction and no spread of peace in Iraq. Those who claimed that they would rid people of the problem have become the problem themselves.
Cases of major depression and mental breakdown thus began among soldiers shortly after the beginning of the Iraq invasion.
Manifestations of Depression
Depression in this case manifests itself in various and numerous ways including:
– A large number of soldiers suffering from psychological illnesses, such as hysteria, obsessions and phobias (of all types)
– Indignation towards others in their leadership after the lies were exposed
– Panic, manifested by rejecting orders or escaping military service
– Spread of sadism among a squad of soldiers, who committed the ugliest types of torture in Abu Ghraib prison. This became a new symbol for Nazism, and a worse one at that. Moot trials, conducted by U.S. judges, could not reduce the monstrosity of these acts, which are unmatched anywhere in modern history
– Moral and psychological decay from drugs, depression and the human inability to find meaning in life.
Dr. Shimi points to the fact that “these manifestations rebounded in the hearts of Americans, soldiers and people, as a large segment of American youth became deviants engaging in the most heinous kinds of sexual and criminal deviancy.”
Then he continues: “In my view, the American people will pay for the many decades to come the price of this foolish step, if we take into consideration the deterioration of the unit of human values to these people. It is impossible for American society to advance or at least maintain its level of moral, psychological and even religious decay, especially when this was caused by:
– The spread of the abuse of drugs of all kinds
– All types of depression
– A lack of human feeling
– The inability to find meaning in life and a lack of personal, social or national goals
– A waste of wealth (a deteriorating economic situation) of the world’s superpower."
Vietnam and Iraq are the U.S. Army's Two Nightmares
If the Vietnam War needed years for its events to be erased from the American memory and resulted in a new psychological illness, the Vietnam Syndrome, then the Iraq war will need decades or a change in the psychology of the American youth that participated or did not participate in the war. They will need a psychological rehabilitation and the creation of reasonable and acceptable new incentives. There is no way this will ever happen.
Psychological Illnesses After Their Return from the Battlefield
According to Dr. Shimi, it is noteworthy that soldiers who stayed in an acceptable psychological condition to an extent will spend the rest of their lives suffering from:
– Feelings of guilt and regret
– Absent-mindedness and voluntary suppression of memories to get rid of nightmares
– Post-traumatic stress disorder, the most dangerous one of all, which Vietnam War veterans still suffer.
Dr. Shimi says: “Who knows, this could be a blessing in disguise. Those defeated and disgruntled that are returning may be the cause of a change in the American political structure.”
For Whose Interests are These Soldiers Working?
These people did not wake up and realize that what they did under the slogan “serving the American flag” was nothing but service for:
– The interests of Israel and world Zionism
– The interests of the wealthy
– The interests of arms dealers
– The interests of reckless politicians, the captives of power hunger, narcissism, grandiosity and paranoia (a feeling of being followed).
The worst thing is that, when these people wake up, the people (whose interests were served in the war) will get a taste of their own medicine. And it will be too late for them to repent.
Psychological illnesses, which do not discriminate on the basis of nationality, ethnicity or religion, will strike those people. If the mental health of the people was hit, then everything else is hit. All the weapons and technological developments will not help. It is a dangerous and psychological virus that is spreading among the ranks of the U.S. army in different forms. There is no way it will ever be cured.
The U.S. soldier, withdrawing from Iraq while carrying a badge of victory and seeming happy, most closely resembles a rooster that dances because it is in pain after its slaughter.
Fadhl Shimi, a doctor specializing in psychological and mental illnesses, said while speaking about this subject to the Al-Manar network that “in every war, regardless of its kind or where it occurs, psychological preparation for the soldiers to put on the masks (and positive motives) to get into the war occur parallel to military, technological and logistical preparations.”
Portraying the War as a Humanitarian Act.
U.S. politicians, along with numerous psychologists and psychiatrists, have worked on this subject. They led soldiers to believe that what they were doing was a humanitarian act to rid the Iraqi people from tyrants, to spread “democracy and peace” in Iraq and to also protect the greatest country that unilaterally rules or controls the world.
And here comes their slogan, nationally speaking, if we have not added it already:
– eradicating the alleged weapons of mass destruction
– ridding nations from terrorism, whose roots go back to the play 9/11 and its aftermath. They instilled the U.S. people with feelings of hate against Muslims and Arabs, especially after those people's false and unjust portrayal to the world as terrorists.
Dr. Shimi believes that these and other feelings formed a thin cover or artificial incentives for military work. The truth was discovered soon thereafter, and the feelings of numerous people came crashing down.
There were no weapons of mass destruction and no spread of peace in Iraq. Those who claimed that they would rid people of the problem have become the problem themselves.
Cases of major depression and mental breakdown thus began among soldiers shortly after the beginning of the Iraq invasion.
Manifestations of Depression
Depression in this case manifests itself in various and numerous ways including:
– A large number of soldiers suffering from psychological illnesses, such as hysteria, obsessions and phobias (of all types)
– Indignation towards others in their leadership after the lies were exposed
– Panic, manifested by rejecting orders or escaping military service
– Spread of sadism among a squad of soldiers, who committed the ugliest types of torture in Abu Ghraib prison. This became a new symbol for Nazism, and a worse one at that. Moot trials, conducted by U.S. judges, could not reduce the monstrosity of these acts, which are unmatched anywhere in modern history
– Moral and psychological decay from drugs, depression and the human inability to find meaning in life.
Dr. Shimi points to the fact that “these manifestations rebounded in the hearts of Americans, soldiers and people, as a large segment of American youth became deviants engaging in the most heinous kinds of sexual and criminal deviancy.”
Then he continues: “In my view, the American people will pay for the many decades to come the price of this foolish step, if we take into consideration the deterioration of the unit of human values to these people. It is impossible for American society to advance or at least maintain its level of moral, psychological and even religious decay, especially when this was caused by:
– The spread of the abuse of drugs of all kinds
– All types of depression
– A lack of human feeling
– The inability to find meaning in life and a lack of personal, social or national goals
– A waste of wealth (a deteriorating economic situation) of the world’s superpower."
Vietnam and Iraq are the U.S. Army's Two Nightmares
If the Vietnam War needed years for its events to be erased from the American memory and resulted in a new psychological illness, the Vietnam Syndrome, then the Iraq war will need decades or a change in the psychology of the American youth that participated or did not participate in the war. They will need a psychological rehabilitation and the creation of reasonable and acceptable new incentives. There is no way this will ever happen.
Psychological Illnesses After Their Return from the Battlefield
According to Dr. Shimi, it is noteworthy that soldiers who stayed in an acceptable psychological condition to an extent will spend the rest of their lives suffering from:
– Feelings of guilt and regret
– Absent-mindedness and voluntary suppression of memories to get rid of nightmares
– Post-traumatic stress disorder, the most dangerous one of all, which Vietnam War veterans still suffer.
Dr. Shimi says: “Who knows, this could be a blessing in disguise. Those defeated and disgruntled that are returning may be the cause of a change in the American political structure.”
For Whose Interests are These Soldiers Working?
These people did not wake up and realize that what they did under the slogan “serving the American flag” was nothing but service for:
– The interests of Israel and world Zionism
– The interests of the wealthy
– The interests of arms dealers
– The interests of reckless politicians, the captives of power hunger, narcissism, grandiosity and paranoia (a feeling of being followed).
The worst thing is that, when these people wake up, the people (whose interests were served in the war) will get a taste of their own medicine. And it will be too late for them to repent.
Psychological illnesses, which do not discriminate on the basis of nationality, ethnicity or religion, will strike those people. If the mental health of the people was hit, then everything else is hit. All the weapons and technological developments will not help. It is a dangerous and psychological virus that is spreading among the ranks of the U.S. army in different forms. There is no way it will ever be cured.