Afghanistan, by the numbers

--Number of American soldiers in Afghanistan: 88,000

--Number of American soldier casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: 4,454. At least 1,828 killed in Afghanistan alone as of this past Tuesday, according to the Defense Department.

--Suicides among active-duty soldiers in the US Army more than doubled from June, in July.

--26 active-duty Army soldiers killed themselves in July, compared with 12 in June.

--The July total was the highest for any month since the Army began reporting suicides by month in 2009.

--For the first seven months of 2012, the Army recorded 116 suicides among active-duty soldiers. If that pace were maintained through December the year's total would approach 200, compared with 167 for all of 2011.

That's all.

That's enough.

It's disgusting.

Links: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/16/army-suicides_n_1792372.html