PTSD Cases Up 50 Percent In 2007 Among US War Troops

From today's war is hell department comes this discouraging article from the AP. New PTSD diagnoses among troops in Iraq were up 50 percent in 2007, some of it inevitably connected to last summer's "surge" in forces around Baghdad. What with troops seeing increased rotations into battle zones and lengthier deployments, I doubt this will get better any time soon.

Whatever the next President does about the war, we are going to be paying the price for all of this in our culture for a long time to come. I hope we can do better by this generation of troops than we did th Vietnam generation.