The New York Times reported today that a U.S. soldier stationed in Baghdad killed five of his comrades (click here for the article). Apparently, the soldier was recovering at a clinic for soldiers suffering from war stress.
The easy thing to do is simply make this soldier out to be a villain, to turn him into a sad case of someone who "lost it" during the war. But in the interest of trying to understand how the soldier could do this, it's our job to explore how this could happen -- not in order to excuse it, but in order to find greater clarity in a tragedy.
Are there any artifacts we've read this unit that would help explain how something like this could happen?
Monday, May 11, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Simulation Day
Feel free to create a comment thread here for sharing your thoughts on the simulation.
Do you have any last-minute questions? Strategies? Any lessons you'd like to apply to the simulation from the past unit?
Good luck!
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