In reply to Senator Donnelly Announces Jacob Sexton Suicide Prevention of 2014
I agree with all of the Senator's comments. However, the number one thing we can do to prevent military suicides is to stop sending our service men and women into unnecessary wars, wherein they may be forced to see and likely take part in things that no human being should ever have to see. We can and should do everything to comfort and if necessary rehabilitate those who have been there. If there is such a thing as a just war and our wars are truly just, they can also take comfort from that. But an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and to this end I would say that the most effective thing the federal government can do is to adopt Dennis Kucinich's forgotten proposal to establish a Department of Peace, to put the same kind of energy into preventing wars that currently gets put into prosecuting them.
