In a recent article here we asked who is the enemy, took ourselves back to a very popular president who warned us to beware of militarism, and mused that we would be better off economically if we just invaded ourselves.The military is very stingy with data which they think puts them in a bad light. For instance, they have not been allowing the public to even view coffins of the dead coming back from Iraq.
But they, for some reason, have had to disclose that suicides killed more soldiers last month than the wars did:
The Army is investigating a stunning number of suicides in January — a count that could surpass all combat deaths on America's two warfronts last month.(Fox News, they "lost" the page, so here is the Wayback Machine Copy).
The old saying that "many hands lighten the load" reminds me that they would do well to let many psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, in and out of the military, take a meaningful look at this trend.
Then do some treatment.
The next post in this series is here.
Do these x soldiers feel guilt and loathing for what happened at Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, and during the surge, and then conclude mistakenly that there is no other way for them?
ReplyDeleteI just watched In The Valley of Elah which explains a lot.
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