Friday, January 28, 2011

Not die in war, but war

For two years here, the friendly fire kills more than enemy fire in Afghanistan and Iraq, not on the front line, where the error lies in wait, but far from the din of the fighting in the darkness of their room, in depths of his soul, where fear and guilt, anxiety and distress, do not let you escape. In 2010, the U.S.

military in permanent service actual suicide deaths were "at least 468", against a total of 462 killed in action, not to mention accidents and diseases. And, in 2009, the military had been 381 suicides, even then a bit 'more of those killed in action. The suicides have increased by about one quarter, in the bloodiest ever for the troops at the front in Afghanistan since the conflict began on 8 October 2001.

The data we take from an article by John Donnelly on Congress. org, the site of CQ Weekly, specialized publication to follow the decision-making processes of Congress. "To the problem of suicides in uniform, senators and deputies of the United States have dealt with several times." Donnelly Remodeling a bit 'on the upside, based on their research and assessments, the official numbers of the Armed Forces, situated in 2010 to 434 suicides.

The journalist explains why the official figures are not one hundred percent reliable and sin to default, not in excess: the statistics are not uniform and some military facilities are reluctant to report them. And then there are those who do not count soldiers who commit suicide after being discharged, but the aftermath that the missions of war have left in them.

And, again, the men of the National Guard and reserves should be counted only when they commit suicide during the service or good? Beyond the way to compile the statistics, however, the increase in the number of suicides is a measure of stress that a decade of uninterrupted war, and about 7,500 died, but hundreds of thousands of enemies eliminated and "collateral victims" that killed civilians, have accumulated on the U.S.

military. It can be seen at the cinema, but you also measure the reality of every day. It is not enough to soothe the anxiety to know, or read, that President Hamid Karzai in Kabul has finally settled the Parliament, or in Washington that President Barack Obama has confirmed, in the State of the Union speech, that the withdrawal of troops will begin in July.

The suicide of the soldiers, almost always, there is a way to escape from Afghanistan, or where we fight, but to escape from themselves, after having been in that violence, and it sets it suffered. The war kills those who do not fight anymore.

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