The Official Responsibility for Soldier Suicides

In 2009 it was first reported that more American soldiers were committing suicide than civilians for the first time in decades. In February 2010, the Peace and Justice Resource Center reported that suicides among American troops had reached 1,000 at a rate greater than fatalities in either the Iraq or Afghanistan Wars. Once again this week, the Pentagon acknowledged an Associated Press report that suicides were at record levels, 18 per day, and an 18 percent increase in active-duty suicides over last year. Those should have been warnings enough.