Suicide - The left has

Suicide - The left has been gravely intoning the number of suicides among US troops stationed in Iraq. This German report is the latest. The suicide rate among GIs in Iraq is around 13.5 per 100,000 troops - higher than the 10.5/100,000 rate among stateside troops.

Tragic? Absolutely.

But to put it in perspective, David's Medienkritik notes that not only is the suicide in the peacetime German Army higher (at 17/100,000) than the US military's rate in theatre, but the suicide rates throughout society are vastly higher per capita in Germany (14/100,000), France (19/100,000) and Belgium (21/100,000) among many others.