earthquake<\/em>. I didn’t put the two things together in my mind. Rumsfeld did instantly. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder is not a concept, it it a very real thing – a powerful thing. The acute phase is an experience that overwhelms the mind, that literally cannot be "taken in." If you see a person in this phase of the illness, they often look blank, "fuzzy," and later have little accessible memory. They’re dazed. On the battlefield, such a person might stand up and casually begin to walk. A rape victim may talk about a missed appointment or torn clothes. The mind is a muddle.<\/p>\n
In Michael Moore’s movie, Farenheit 911, we see President Bush in such a state. In this piece, we hear Paul Wolfowitz describing such a state. Some of us may recall being in such a state as we first watched the t.v. on 911.<\/p>\n
In this article in the Huffington Post<\/strong><\/font>, the author, Eric Boehlert, says:<\/p>\n\nNow, as 9\/11 remembrance week draws to a close, I thought it might worth examining the odd inaction by such a senior member of the administration. The same senior official who later played a central role in planning the disastrous war in Iraq.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Lord knows, I don’t want to defend George W. Bush or Paul Wolfowitz, but this muted, fuzzy response doesn’t say what the author implies. It says, "I can’t think." It’s a human response. What is also true is that it’s a human response of someone who has never been in combat<\/strong>, has never been traumatized – a rookie. It’s the fog of war<\/em><\/strong>…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why Was Wolfowitz So Clueless On The Morning of 9\/11? Wolfowitz: We were having a meeting in my office. Someone said a plane had hit the World Trade Center. Then we turned on the television and we started seeing the shots of the second plane hitting, and this is the way I remember it. It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}