Veterans are human too!

That is another reason I have never being a fan of the NY Times.

Great topic. I think that the awareness of bringing mental issues of veterans to the forefront is good. However, people being people tend to stereotype us all as having PTSD and ready to commit violent acts. Awareness is great but the public stereotypes too much and this is a problem in our media. No one says anything about the vet who seems well adjusted. Why it is not newsworthy I guess.

Sir I feel this story could have been told from a much better perspective on the dangers of extremist ideologies yet the reporter elected to use hate and fear. The reporter/author Kathleen Belew neglects to suggest that many individuals that enter the military hold on to their extremist ideology during their military careers. The supposed correlation in war veterans and clan membership is lose at best. I would bet that if you look at recruits in law enforcement, paramedics, and firefighters you would also find a similar correlation as many are veterans looking to reintegrate into society. For her to say that veterans join these groups because of the military structure of these groups is moronic, callous, and is as just as indifferent to military service members as those she is speaking about. These members racial views are not those of the military. If anything the military has been at the vanguard of human rights when it comes to race or religion. Also at the end of her article she also goes into the mental health aspects of vets grasping to connect the dots suggesting that former SM's join up for hate groups because of war trauma again is reckless. The main reason these individuals join these groups is they identify with the indifferent message of hate based on skin color. Now give me an article on why racism is still prevalent and I might believe you do this for your day job and not a hack reporter.

I read the articles too and yeah I'm pretty outraged too.  I think this was a case of a person taking a fact from the story and twisting it around.  The NYTimes will have a lot of clean up coming their way.

Sir, there are haters and extremists in most, if not all organizations. Why wouldn't there be in an organization that has members from so many races, different religions, and backgrounds? This is just another situation where there's one bad apple so they blame the tree. It's just crazy to think that way. It would be like someone blaming a gunmaker for a shooting....I guess they have, but you get the point.

New York Times??? Trash propagandist media. They have no respect for service-members regardless of what they try to spin.

This is just another way the far left tries to demonize veterans to promote their agenda.
every segment of our society has it's bad people. To point out a few isolated incidents for the sake of branding an entire demographic is absurd.

The most troubling part of the article is that too many take as gospel what the New York Times and other left leaning media outlets say.

While the article mentions only a few incidents, how many never read past the headline or first paragraph. In fact, the first three paragraphs suggest that many veterans, especially those from the Vietnam era are part of this supremacy movement. By the time the average reader makes it to the fourth paragraph when she suggests it is only a small portion of vets, the liberal reader will have already judged vets as killers, white supremacists, and general degenerates of society.

Any media outlet that allows someone to take a couple facts and apply it to an entire group is irresponsible and negligent. Then again, that is what drives the Main stream media.