DiLulio on the wacko-vet myth

Posted 44 weeks 1 day ago by Ben

John DiLulio, writing on the Weekly Standard's site today, completely dismantles the New York Times' story about Iraq and Afghan war veterans who kill. The gist:

The "Deadly Echoes" story spotlighted an important issue and sensitively profiled several tragic incidents. In many respects it was a model piece of journalism. But, in such a lengthy report, the Times should have done more to put its 121 cases against a broader data backdrop or two, been clearer about what nobody really knows about the subject, and taken much greater care than it did to avoid echoing what the VFW, in a 2006 story referenced by the reporters, rightly rejected as the "wacko-vet" myth.