CS:

The rhetoric in your OP is misguided. A soldier gets paid, as he fights for his beliefs. A mercenary fights for his pay. If the distinction escapes you then the whole world of human efforts must look pretty wan in your eyes.

This is not to say there are not plenty of mercenary operatives in our present defense system. And the whole hting becomes much more problematic when the causes of war are themselves dubious and suspect.

But it would be better, IMHO, to identify the actual problems. Some very brave and intelligent people have gone into firefights convinced of their justifications for doing so, and have acted heroically in defense of their fellows. This is not something to be scorned at by some mudhen with a Dell.


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