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...called battle fatigue or shell shock. A congressional study in 1988 found that about 479,000 of the nation's 3.5 million or so Vietnam vets are afflicted with serious cases; an additional 350,000 display more moderate symptoms. PTSD is a state of extreme arousal caused by the virtual nonstop release of adrenaline and other similar substances into the bloodstream. When cars backfire, PTSD patients generally hit the dirt. The sound of helicopter rotor blades causes some to conceal themselves in trees. A baby's cry can invoke instant rage. Put in nonclinical terms, says psychiatrist Staten, the symptoms...
...principal reason, according to Schwarzkopf, is that the allies have so seriously crippled the Iraqi air-defense system that Baghdad has given up all attempts to exercise central control: every antiaircraft and missile battery is on its own trying to track and intercept allied raiders. Then there is the virtual disappearance of the Iraqi air force: scores of its planes destroyed on the ground or in the air; hundreds more hiding in shelters and rarely taking off; another 100 or so of the best planes flown to Iran...
What is certain is that the oil spill has delivered a devastating blow to the ecology of the Persian Gulf. "Massive oil spills could turn this body of water into a virtual dead sea," says Brent Blackwelder, vice president of Friends of the Earth. Hundreds of oil-soaked marine birds are already washing up on the shores of northern Saudi Arabia...
...extraordinarily painful lesson that cost Vietnam its virtual existence and the United States its very soul. It was a painful lesson this generation, unfortunately, seems determined to learn for itself...
...broken. Ever since Iraq's invasion of Kuwait raised the threat of war in the Middle East last August, business in many parts of the globe has suffered because so many decisions have been put on hold. In the U.S. the specter of a major war has created a virtual paralysis in an economy already plagued by recession, deep budget deficits and troubled banks. "It's frightening," said Mitchell Fromstein, CEO of Manpower, the employment-services company. "We're watching a war being superimposed on top of a recession. People are just frozen in place until they see what...