Whilst it is always tragic for any individual to go through the horrors of war, there is far too much coverage of the western casualties of these illegal wars. What we need more of, is in depth reporting and pictures of the Serbian, Iraqi and Afghan casualties on RT. Why not go and do detailed interviews with their mothers, wives, fathers.... I see too much that westerners are treated as emotional casualties, deserving great understanding. Whilst the real victims, with lives lost or bodies horribly disfigured are treated as just numbers. One PTSD case = in depth report with family. Over 1 million Iraqi's dead = a simple one liner statistic. RT could break whole new ground with a daily report with pictures of victims of the western colonial advance.

The Warmongers are paying a big price in human excise just to prevent other countries and Global economy from development and prosperity. These Warmongers have been doing this for centuries by colonizing weak nations and draining their human and natural resources and plunging the colonized population in despair. These Warmongers have killed millions upon millions of innocent women and children for their selfish and egoistic desires and inflicted immense human suffering which cannot ever be forgotten.

Since the populations of the USA, Great-Britain, France and that coalition of idiots have accepted those illegal wars; then they should not cry when their sons die. How many sons of those who decided that participation are there. They made a big deal of a British prince going in Afghanistan, but that was just for cinema. In France, we have lost nearly 100 000 young soldiers in Viet-Nam and Algeria's wars, and still we have not learned. Let America mercenaries fight; They are the only ones, conscientiously wanting to fight. If the French parents will rise their children differently and our politicians not be so stupid, those poor kids will have chosen an other profession,..Beside, what are our responsibilities about all the innocent Iraki and Afghan sons and daughters killed...Sorry for all of them...JCM

this is crazy talk, war is not natural state of mind, war is not normal no matter what.. everybody who joins the arms is already impaired one way or another, therefore, this "illness" cannot be treated, it can be avoided altogether by not joining the army. War belongs to the cruel past of people who are not aware, who do not care, and who are violent in their minds, once we change that, every individual changes that in their own heads, to live a life of peace in his head, then it becomes possible to see the idiocracy of joining a violent institution such as the police or army.

British Soldiers, and British Civillians alike are constantly being told that we are engaged in fighting a just and honourable war against an evil enemy who will destroy us and our way of life without a second thought. The soldiers going out to fight in Afghanistan are called 'heroes' in the press, on TV, and by our leaders. Woe betide any ordinary person who dares to suggest (at least in public) that any part of the above may not be entirely true! The reality of shooting elderly villagers who may carry a weapon to defend themselves and their family against the very insurgents the British are supposed to be hunting coupled to the the use of powerful (and often inacurate) air support that kills children as readily as combatants, and the title of 'hero' doesn't quite fit anymore. Add to the above the support that our military give to an obviously corrupt puppet government, a growing international drugs trade, and the support of (and even payment of bribes to) warloards / armed gangs / Taliban so that they don't engage NATO forces, and it should be obvious to even the most ignorant soldier that they are not fighting an honourable war. Add all this knowledge to the usual horrors of war and the hardships of the warzone, and it is quite understanderble that many of our soldiers are becoming psychologicaly damaged. I do not blame our armed forces at all, they are mostly young people following their training and doing exactly what they have been told to do by thier leaders. It is our corrupt, greedy, pro USA government that is responsible for this (and the pooring of billions of GB pounds down the drain when we can least afford it too). Eventually we may see people in power speaking out against our presence in Afghanistan, but it won't happen soon.

I don't think I'd go as far as shooting someone, but there might have been a reason they did that. Like Jarhead or whatnot and maybe those two deserved it and he was willing to give up his life to take them out. Anyway, you can't meddle with the world much without getting a mental illness of some sort. Brahman has many worlds. Now he's labeled forever and will get at least 4 or 5 more labels and brainwashed into some guilt that he probably doesn't feel or he wouldn't have done it in the first place but once failure is placed and isolated, yippy.

Anesthetization of troops by the government's propaganda begins to wear off after a while. The troops either begin to enjoy their brutality, as the Americans in Abu Grahib and other torture prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq, or they show symptoms of mental anguish and problems. The UK planners of Afghan and Iraqi invasions understood the problem quite well, and relied on sophisticated scenario of lies and deceptions to fool their troops into believing that the horror they have brought upon the occupied people is necessary to protect their own homes, freedoms and way of life - quite a clever con job. What the UK planners overlooked was that most of their troops have a conscience and are decent human beings. Such soldiers understand that braking into Afghan homes in the middle of the night, blowing up entire families in vehicles, or leveling villages, is a crime, no matter how their officers try to spin these murders as having been necessary to protect Sally in Liverpool.