David Brooks Quotes About Soldiers

Quotes about: Soldiers

• People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul.

  David Brooks

  People, Soldier, Soul

• If there is a series of attacks like that or, God forbid, if ISIS is really sending soldiers across Europe and maybe across the world for a barrage of these things, then the political climate is revolutionized here. And maybe the [Donald] Trump speech will look like a precursor to a climate that we're all about to walk into.

  David Brooks

  Isis, Europe, Political

  "Shields and Brooks on the Hillary Clinton veepstakes, the latest Trump-Cruz dustup". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 22, 2016.

• If you're a soldier or marine in an Arab country, Islam is the solution. And you need to show respect.

  David Brooks

  Country, Marine, Soldier

  "The PBS NewsHour Boys: Dubya Is Lincoln, Today's GOP 'Horrendous' on Refugees, Islam" by Tim Graham, www.newsbusters.org. November 21, 2015.

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