Re: OT: thought provoking op-ed

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:59:54 -0500, F. George McDuffee
<gmcduffee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Came across this on Der Spiegel's site.
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Hired Gun Fetish By Paul Krugman

As far as I can tell, America has never fought a war in which
mercenaries made up a large part of the armed force, as is the
case in Iraq.

Sometimes it seems that the only way to make sense of the Bush
administration is to imagine that it's a vast experiment
concocted by mad political scientists who want to see what
happens if a nation systematically ignores everything we've
learned over the past few centuries about how to make a modern
government work.
<snip>
for rest of article see
http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,508419,00.html

Unka' George [George McDuffee]

Just taking a page from the rest of the world.

Mercs have never hurt for work.

Ask the Brits bout the subject...

Search term...Hessians....

Gunner

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