A disturbing trend since 2010 warns of “significantly higher” suicide rates among the 40 thousand soldiers who were deployed to Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014. Andrew Garsh, who spent 12 years in the military, suffered severe brain trauma after a car bomb went off in front of the vehicle he happened to be in.
Garsh says it had a devastating effect on his life when he became isolated, broke off communication with everyone he had worked with and even when he drove to the military base he worked at, would break into a sweat with anxiety.
Garsh was eventually diagnosed with a seizure disorder, got the help he needed and recovered.
Author Sally Armstrong argues the Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan improved the lives of women. The wearing of the niqab by women is seen by some as a sign of oppression. Armstrong who has written a lot about women in Afghanistan hates the niqab but says, like Voltaire, she will defend the right of women to wear it if they so choose.
