Military suicides among active-duty personnel continue to increase. It’s hardly surprising that some of the people who volunteer to kill innocent people feel guilty enough to end their lives. The mystery is why so many veterans don’t feel guilty.
Not Everyone Feels Bad about Military Suicides
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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I feel bad for the kids who have no options and get swept up in all the manly-man propaganda that the military’s expert PR firms vomit up. I can’t blame an 18-year-old for falling for it when every cowardly senator and representative drops to both knees to metaphorically fellate anyone in a uniform with the traditional “thank you for your service” crap. “If it weren’t for you, who’d rape children and shoot unarmed old women?”
It’s too bad the people who constantly come up with ways to seduce the innocent into the slavering maw of the military machine aren’t the ones offing themselves.