Last Sunday the New York Times ran a front-page story about murders being committed by veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, conveniently overlooking the fact that these killings take place at less than one-fifth the rate of civilians in the same age group. But Move America Forward has their number!
"That murder rate is far lower than the murder rate for the general population, demonstrating that the experiences of military service – including having served in Iraq and Afghanistan – actually made it less likely for returning veterans to commit murder once they returned home, than the general population....In place of hard data to support their premise, The New York Times was instead forced to devote almost the entire portion of 6,321 word hit-piece to anecdotes of wrongdoing by individual veterans."
By all means read their entire article, which is reinforced by this Ralph Peters column in the New York Post.
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