Newsflash: War is crazy-making. Especially counterinsurgency war...

Ugh. Mental Health Crisis looming for returning soldiers. Speaking as someone who suffers from Major Depressive Disorder, I am really horrified:

"There's a train coming that's packed with people who are going to need help for the next 35 years," said Stephen L. Robinson, a 20-year Army veteran who is now the executive director of the National Gulf War Resource Center.

Many of these guys are likely be tormented for life by a hideous disease in which the mind literally attempts to torture itself to death. And that's just people who might otherwise look like they survived the war okay. Then there are the soldiers who also lost legs, arms, penises, parts of their faces...