Military Rape
Serving in the military is dangerous enough, you would think, without having to worry about your fellow soldiers raping you. Killing you is bad enough; we know that there are deaths to friendly fire, and almost certainly always will be. Getting raped by the other side is also a danger that, I would imagine, the laws of war will never completely eliminate. But there is increasing news coverage of people getting raped by members of their own side. A Democratic Congressman has introduced a bill that would take military rape cases out of the military chain of command. If the Defense Department is to be believed, there is a veritable contagion of rape among soldiers: 19,000 sexual assaults in 2010 alone. Even granted that not every sexual assault would qualify as a rape, that's still a staggering figure. A new documentary called The Invisible War delves into the problem up close and, from what I have read, in a heart-rending fashion. I don't kn...