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Nadia Abu El-Haj: A Brief History of Militarism, Psychiatry and PTSD

Red Medicine

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How Dare You Ask Me, Did You Kill Someone?

One of the most common tropes in the US today among veterans and other people is, how dare you ask me, did you kill someone? Now, on the one hand, I wouldn't go and ask somebody if they killed someone. But is it always under every circumstance, such an unreasonable question? And a lot of that is tethered around a kind of trauma, which I actually talk about a great length in the book.

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