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Estimates are about one in 12 Service Members who serve in afghanistan and iraq may have ptsd. The department of defense and the va has a total of more than 3 billion treating the disorder. The chemists who invested kevlar has died. Stephanie clark was described as a pioneer for women and sense by du pont. She created kevlar in the mid1960s for use in bulletproof vest in the 70s and believed to have saved the lives of Police Officers and american troops since. She was 90. The latest on the situation in iraq. We are joined by the council of Foreign Relations and the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine. We got right in as soon. We cooperate forget that isis had been disowned because of its broughtality. Sometimes they have fought their own extremists so the question is will there be enough unity to build even a coherent state or see chaos in the area. And you benefit from that . Thats the same question. Nobody benefits except the most extreme groups. They can thrive by providing protectio