Sheep
Of the emergency war spending bills that the congressional sheep rubber-stamp every year, how much of that money really goes to our troops and how much goes to mercenaries? Hopefully none to the mercs, because they sure as hell aren’t our soldiers. If Blackwater, et. al. are being paid to fight, it is certainly not for less than we pay our own soldiers. If they are overwhelmed with a patriotic passion kill some towel-heads, terminate some terrorists or whatever cliched excuse they have for traveling to a foreign sovereign nation and killing its subject in the hopes of further destabilizing a nation and fomenting war, why not do it as real soldiers? Why not join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or even the Coast Guard? With the way things are going these days, we will probably be calling up the U.S.F.S. for our Iranian, North Korean or Pago Pago invasion.
And yet we keep on paying the Halliburtons and Blackwaters of the world to defraud America and endanger our troops. Isn’t there a better way? Or is the worst the best we can do, diverting funds away from our real soldiers and into the pockets of the friends of the administration?
