Thousands of frontline veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are facing escalating mental health problems, alcoholism and family breakdown,
It gets worse than this!
They found that nearly one in four of those deployed for longer than 13 months had "severe" alcohol problems compared with one in 10 of those deployed for less than five months.
When will the government and other world powers realise that the wars we have been fighting for to long, are going nowhere and it's going to end up like Vietnam. I understand that sometimes military action does need to be used. for example, to stop facists like Hitler and Mussolini from spreading their hatred. However, what are the soldiers in Afghanistan & Iraq actually fighting for. Why are they there? Beleive me, even if the government struck a truce with Iraqi and Afghan people there will be military presence there for many years. It wasnt until a few days ago until the military operation in Northern Ireland ended.
Sadly even with reports like this, confirming that there are pejorative effects of warfare, the government will still send many more troops in and not helping the problem.
Thanks for the comments on my dress, i always feel shit in a dress!