Current TV, Rape in the Military & Iraqi Translators

I finally found a cable channel that I like, Current TV. It gets content from Google news, it's run by intelligent young people, and led by Al Gore. It has a section called V.C., which is viewer content, so people can participate by sending videos and podcasts. It's graphics are very contemporary and innovative, it's scope is global and it's politics progressive.
This is what Wiki says about the channel.

I read two good articles, one in the NYT magazine, about the women in the military, who have come back and complained about post traumatic stress disorder coupled with being raped by their superior officers. The distressing article by Sara Corbett is here.

She told Army investigators that the reason she did not report for deployment was that she had been sexually harassed repeatedly by three of her supervisors throughout her military service: beginning in Kuwait; through much of her time in Iraq; and following her return to Fort Lewis. She claimed too to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, a highly debilitating condition brought on by an abnormal amount of stress.

George Packer in the New Yorker, writes about the treatment of Iraqi translators, by the U.S. and the danger they face within Iraq. The lack of protection they have received by the U.S. is shocking. The complete article is here

No conquering enemy army is days away from taking Baghdad; the city is slowly breaking up into smaller, isolated enclaves, and America’s Iraqi allies are being executed one by one. It’s hard to imagine the American presence in Iraq ending with a dramatic helo lift from a Green Zone landing pad. But, in some ways, the unlikelihood of a spectacularly conclusive finale makes the situation of the Iraqis more perilous than that of the South Vietnamese. It’s easier for the U.S. government to leave them to their fate while telling itself that “the good Iraqis” are needed to build the new Iraq.