Not a single American soldier lost his or her life in Iraq in August. That is good news indeed. In the conflict that has claimed the lives of 4,474 American service members thus far, "August marked the first month since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that no American forces have died,"
according to the Associated Press. The caveat: "So we can say with certainty that more veterans of that war died as a result of PTSD/depression at home than they did of direct enemy action in country,"
notes Foreign Policy reader Jim Gourley. (Hat tip: Tom Ricks)
No comments:
Post a Comment