Military Madness

"Over the past nine years, more US military personnel have taken their own lives than have died in action in either the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan."

Military Suicides: A Sign of Empire Pathology

Perhaps the story of Ron Kovic in Vietnam epitomizes the soldier aboandoned and left for dead by the machine he was donating his life for. Time has told that it's embarrassingly naive to assume that the United States and its raison d'etre, the military, would have turned a 180 in the span of the past four decades, but that the lessons of Vietnam still haven't been absorbed by the powers that be is a sign of criminal myopia.