Unease is leading to feelings of resentment and abandonment. Having been there—when you risk death and injury every day, and you come to realize that those who sent you there, to do their bidding, don’t care if you live or die—-it’s then that the anger begins to well up inside you and in the man who is to your left and to your right. You begin to think, ” If I get out of this alive and in one piece—someone is going to pay.”
As the Commander in Chief Deliberates, Frustration Builds Within the Ranks
By ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published: October 19, 2009
But now, after nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise within the military.
The thunderstorm is there and it’s kind of brewing and it’s unstable and the lightning hasn’t struck, and hopefully it won’t,” said Nathaniel C. Fick, a former Marine Corps infantry officer who briefed Mr. Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign and is now the chief executive of the Center for a New American Security, a military research institution in Washington. “I think it can probably be contained and avoided, but people are aware of the volatile brew.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10…
You may get a different sense of the frustrations and anxiety Bumiller writes about.
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p>I could not find one paragraph that substantiated this assertion, “If I get out of this alive and in one piece—someone is going to pay.” Maybe this statement comes from a personal experience.
Since we’re no longer allowed to call them trolls, how about “neerites?” đŸ˜‰
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