Did you know that more Americans have died from suicide than enemy action over the last ten years? It’s true.
It is estimated that the suicide rate among veterans demobbed from fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq is as high as four times the national average. The US Department of Veteran Affairs calculates that over 6,000 former service personnel commit suicide every year.
Prior to 2001, the suicide rate among veterans was substantially lower than that of the general population.
I don’t like the word empire. I don’t like agreeing with peace-nik cowards whose main purpose in life is to prevent intelligent military activity. But I have to admit that it is unclear to me how much good our wars have done.
Why not try bringing most of our troops home from Afghanistan, leaving a few residual training brigades and enough planes for ground support missions, and seeing what happens? My guess is that the risk of attacks here, in America, will not go up at all.
I have run this idea by NUMEROUS veterans of Afghanistan, from grunts to Spec. Op types, and they like it.
Why are so manyh of us still there?
Ron Paul for President. I say this without the fervor many manage, but as a sober decision of someone who reads a lot, thinks a lot, and sees no good alternative. Paul is the only person since Reagan who might actually make a big difference.