Suicide in the armed forces

The Guardian reports (2/08/2013) that in 2012 more of America’s serving soldiers died at their own hands than in pursuit of the enemy. 349 service members took their own lives, and 295 died in combat. Psychiatrists use the concept of “moral injury” to explain this, that is, “damage to your deeply held beliefs about right …

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Assad’s fall will put us (Israelis) in mortal danger

We Israelis face mortal danger as the regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad nears its end. It now controls barely 25% of the country (even its Russian allies admit its days are numbered), and we’re having to act as if it had already gone. Global jihadis are entrenched across the border in Golan, and it’s just …

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