Uncle Sam Needs You (to chill out a little)

The US army has what 130,000 odd troops in Iraq? And strangely, there isn‘t a massive queue of people wanting to join them. Army recruitment and re-enlistment in the US is now so low that the draft is on the cards again.

But they‘re not all dumb in the Pentagon. How‘s this for a recruitment poster? American soldiers traumatised by fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan are to be offered the drug ecstasy to help free them of flashbacks and recurring nightmares. It’s a big price to pay though.