Sgt. First Class Erick Rodriguez stood guard at the entrance to Fort Hood as officials prepared to brief the news media about Wednesday's attack at the post. Erich Schlegel /Reuters/Landov
The Repercussions Of Iraq And Afghanistan -- Carter Eskew, Washington Post
“Sorry, we couldn’t find a match,” read the search box on the Military Times’s “Honor the Fallen” Web site. I had looked for the names of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan or Iraq last month and came up with that ironic answer. The algorithm must be so accustomed to the death of our soldiers that it hasn’t come up with an alternative response. In fact, March was the first month in eleven years that no U.S. military personnel died in those long wars. But as the shooting at Fort Hood yesterday reminds us, violence and death follow some of our soldiers home.
An average of 22 veterans a day commit suicide, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Thousands more suffer from mental and physical disabilities, and many of them will need long-term care for the rest of their lives, which are now only just beginning their third decade.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Don’t Blame PTSD for the Fort Hood Shooting -- Richard Allen Smith, Time
Why John Kerry’s Mideast peace push collapsed -- John Podhoretz, New York Post
Middle East peace talks: what will figure into Kerry's 'reality check' -- Howard LaFranchi, Christian Science Monitor
The Campaigns for Kabul -- Matthieu Aikins, New York Times
Afghanistan is still a long way from democracy -- Zachary Roth, MSNBC
Afghan security crisis: 13 years & $100 billion after US entry -- RT
Is Karzai Actually a Great Leader? -- Leela Jacinto, Foreign Policy
Safe in exile, Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood leaders now risk irrelevance -- Louisa Loveluck, Christian Science Monitor
Twenty Years On, Questions of Rwandan Justice Persist -- Emilie Iob, Voice of America
Why Egypt is in a spiral of despair -- Khaled al-Berry, The Guardian
Putin's Rejection of the West, in Writing -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
The Expandables: How NATO 'conquered' Europe -- RT
Wake Up, Central Europe -- Dariusz Kałan, National Interest
Is China the Next Lehman Brothers? -- John Cassidy, The New Yorker
Most expensive aviation search: $53 million to find flight MH370 -- Tom Allard and Amy McNeilage, Sydney Morning Herald
Tick, tock: What happens after the Malaysian plane's pingers die? -- Holly Yan and Mike M. Ahlers, CNN
Will the internet set us free? -- Al Jazeera
The U.S. is still indispensable when it comes to free trade -- David Ignatius, Washington Post
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