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If ISIS attacks US/UK oil fields, US will send troops. ISIS must not EVER mess with BigOil profits.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2015/02/23/387470827/brutal-isis-tactics-create-new-levels-of-trauma-among-iraqis
At a camp for displaced people in northern Iraq, you pass rows of tents to reach the clinic run by the International Medical Corps. They have medicines to treat all kinds of problems: diabetes shots, vaccines, heart pills.But it's harder to cure what's afflicting one woman in particular.
"The pain inside of me is so deep," she says. "I just cry every day."
Militants from the group that calls itself the Islamic State kidnapped the woman's adult son in June, and she doesn't know his fate.
Her husband expresses the loss in more destructive ways.
"I've become mentally ill," he says. "When my wife tries to talk to me, I just lash out. I hit her."
"I've totally changed. I'm not like normal people any more. I don't expect to be fixed."
- A 29-year-old man who watched extremists cover his friend in kerosene and set him on fire
People in Iraq have lived with war for more than a decade. But aid workers say ISIS' practice of public beheading and other brutal forms of mass violence is creating new levels of psychological trauma among the Iraqi people.
During one afternoon in Baharka camp clinic, a parade of people came sharing their stories of trauma. We're not using the names of these patients, because they still have family in areas controlled by ISIS, and they fear for their relatives' safety.
One man says ISIS extremists forced him to dig his own grave with a shovel. Another describes watching militants cover his friend in kerosene and set him on fire.
"I've totally changed," says the 29-year-old man. "I'm not like normal people any more. I don't expect to be fixed."
Only a tiny fraction of the people at Baharka camp who need counseling and other help are receiving it.
Ari Shapiro/NPR
Overcoming Stigma, Overwhelming Numbers
It's the job of Stacy Lamon to try to fix him. Lamon is director of mental health for Iraq with the International Medical Corps.
"I wish I had a vaccination, that I could give people a quick shot and they'd be better," Lamon says. "It doesn't work that way."
The mental health staff members at this camp give their patients counseling and sometimes pills. Dr. Omed Khadir Taha, one of the psychiatrists here, says he also has to tackle the stigma that goes along with mental health problems in Iraq.
"They cannot express, you know," Taha says. "Sometimes they perceive that as just a kind of weakness."
This is slow, arduous work, and only a tiny fraction of those who need help are getting it, says Lamon.
"There [are] 3,000 people in this camp, and this is one of the smaller camps," he says. "And of the 3,000 there's only a very small portion that are being treated."
Imagining A Day With Less Pain
He says Iraq could be looking at a traumatized generation. But some patients give the staff reason to hope.
One man at the camp watched his 7-year-old son killed in front of him. The man scrolls through images on his phone — his son, as a newborn, as a toddler. The boy is adorable, all smiles. The man says he looks at these more times each day than he can count.
Before, he says, he was more than 90 percent in pain. Now, he says, it's decreased to 50 percent. He is only beginning to recover.
But when asked, he says he can imagine a day when his pain diminishes even more — inshallah, or God willing, he says.
At the end of the day, we leave the camp, and pass by this man again. He doesn't notice us. He's sitting by himself, staring at the pictures on his phone.
If ISIS attacks US/UK oil fields, US will send troops. ISIS must not EVER mess with BigOil profits.
Damn, you are just monumentally stupid.
This administration wouldn't fight for US "climate changing" oilfields, much less Muslim ones.
Last edited by CosmicCowboy; 02-23-2015 at 08:12 PM.
I'm sorry, who allowed Bin Laden to rest his vag comfortably for 8 years?
@ignorant s trying to turn this into a Bush thread.
fighting for oil
So what the were we doing in Afghanistan? No oil there.
I repeat, the MIC/DeepState/BigOil set foreign policy, not the WH. If US/UK oil producers in Iraq are threatened, US/UK military will re-invade Iraq for oil.
I repeat.
You are a ing spittle spewing idiot.
The original idea was to kill AQ and Taleban for harboring AQ, then the Repugs turned it into nation building. As your buddy dubya said, paraphrase" "US must keep wasting troops to honor the troops already wasted"
fighting for oil
So what the were we doing in Afghanistan? No oil there.
Bush is not my buddy and you are still an idiot.
I still think we should have never gone in there in the first place.
There is no endgame solution when you are dealing with a culture lost in a 2000 year time warp.
Once the $100Bs start flowing to the MIC, very hard to turn off, ask Obama. The neo-cons and BigOil knew it, War Is A Business.
So you voted for Gore and Kerry?
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