A Warrior Loves Peace More Than Anything. Then There’s Steven Green

On Monday, I revisited the tragic story of Abeer Qassim Hamza, the 13-year-old Iraqi girl who was repeatedly raped and along with her parents and sister, murdered by a posse of U.S. soldiers led by Private First Class Steven Green, a 21-year-old boy-man with homicidal tendencies and a criminal record of which the Army was well aware.

My commentary got a fair number of initial hits, but like the waves emanating out from a pebble tossed into a pond, it has gotten more and more day by day.

Because of the interest in what I unabashedly offer is one of the more visceral accounts of the horrors visited upon Abeer and her family, as well as the enormous stress that our fighting men and women have been put under in this awful war, I turned to friend and co-blogger Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés for her take on Green and what can happen to men and women at arms.

As Joe would say, Dr. E’s response is a must-read. (Bad previous link has been fixed.)