Manual of the lunatic

On a visit to the emergency room, he was given a recharge of 30 tablet Ambien. He went to his car and committed suicide by ingesting prescription throughout with a quantity of rum. He left a suicide note stating her headaches and other headaches were unbearable.

As if there is not enough that he's gone tragically wrong in this age of endless war, the army is facing an epidemic of suicides. In the year ended September 30, 2009, 160 active duty soldiers took their own lives, a record for the army. The Marines tragic own record in 2009 with 52 suicides. And the month of June, set another record: 32 military suicides in only a month.

War is a meat mincer for service members and their families. It grinds people without mercy, killing them and causing the worst imaginable wound types, physical and psychological. The Pentagon is trying to cope with the wave of suicides, but has a bad side: the desperate shortage of troops has forced the military to reduce of the enlistment bar, thus leaving people whose abuse of alcohol and drugs or other behavioral problems have previously maintained them. And multiple implementations (four, five and six tours in war zones) have been jacked stress levels to the point where many simply cannot understand.

The G.I. had fought bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thousands have been killed and many, many more have suffered. But the wars have made as if its leaders had been reading a crazy man. It is not Germany or Japan or the former Soviet Union that we are fighting. But after almost a decade, no war has been won and there is no chance of winning.

You squandered billions of dollars. W george ("mission accomplished") Bush took the step unprecedented taxes on the Court while waging the war. And Barack Obama has set a deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan without having any idea of how that war might go when it comes to the deadline.

This is the war as it could have been fought by Laurel & Hardy. Absent the shedding of blood, it would be fun. I should like much to listen to Dwight Eisenhower commentary on how these wars have been made.

July was the deadliest month for US troops in Afghanistan. Sixty-six were killed, that was six years older than the number who died in the previous deadliest month June. The nation is providing little or no attention to these deaths, which is shameful. The President goes up to fundraisers and yuks's "The view". For most ordinary Americans, the war is not more than an afterthought.

We're getting the worst of all worlds at Afghanistan: we are not winning and we're not cutting our tragic loss. Most Americans don't care because they do not feel any of the tragic losses. A small fraction of the population is doing the fight, and troops are sent in the tour after tour, war zone as if it is connected to a yo - I nightmare.

Some kind of shared sacrifice is in order, but Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama asked the Americans to make real sacrifices in connection with any of these wars. It is the way to fight a war mobilization of the country - not only the combat troops, behind an integrated effort in times of war. To this end, leaders need to convince the public that is worth fighting and it's worth paying for the war.

What we have in Afghanistan is a war that most Americans believe that it is not worth fighting and not worth raising taxes to pay. President Obama has not made a convincing case for war and has set a deadline for the start of the withdrawal which seems curiously close to the early start of his campaign of 2012 for a second term.

It is time to bring down the curtain for good in these tragic wars, this farce. The fantasy of the burgeoning democracy at the point of a gun in Iraq and happily spread throughout the Middle East has been deleted. And it is hard to believe that someone buy the notion that United States can be installed to a successful society in the medieval madness of Afghanistan.

For those who have not noticed, we have a nation that needs reconstruction here at home. Perhaps we could meet some sacrifice shared on that front.

It is time to bring troops and nurse the wounded, and I thank them for their extraordinary service. It is time to come to our senses and ignore the manual of lunatic.