I wonder why it never crosses the minds of these pundits that the human conscience cannot tolerate engaging in acts of injustice without suffering internal violence… God created the human being b’tzelem Elohim and therefore unjust warfare leads to psychological disintegration, perversion, and eventual suicide. The self-destruction of soliders is entirely tragic — and is entirely the fault of those princes of this world commission their “ignorant armies to clash by night.”
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — One week after the U.S. Army announced record suicide rates among its soldiers last year, the service is worried about a spike in possible suicides in the new year.
If reports of suicides are confirmed, more soldiers will have taken their lives in January than died in combat.
The Army said 24 soldiers are believed to have committed suicide in January alone — six times as many as killed themselves in January 2008, according to statistics released Thursday.
The Army said it already has confirmed seven suicides, with 17 additional cases pending that it believes investigators will confirm as suicides for January.
If those prove true, more soldiers will have killed themselves than died in combat last month. According to Pentagon statistics, there were 16 U.S. combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq in January.
“This is terrifying,” an Army official said. “We do not know what is going on.”