robert clifton was very much a man of the left, an iconic man of the left and it would be an accurate and a distortion to say you have to be a lefty to give ptsd and if you are republican it's not for you and as a result of this, it's been medicalized and mainstream in psychiatry and it has become treated as a biological disorder. it is more a political and less of an argument against the war and more of a tradition that arises and can be treated. so i think there is an all of the original architects they've all grown out of the protest movement in the 1970s mind you, they were all very concerned in more of the motivations for advocating for ptsd recognition was to decrease the likelihood of a war to think about and step back and ask moral questions of the american way of worth. i think it's important that without the protest movement in the 1970s and without the political content we wouldn't have ptsd. there've been a number of occasions after world war i and after the holocaust and the nations in the british and israelis had opportunities to institutionalize something like ptsd and