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On Fri, 17 May 2013 08:58:17 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 5/17/13 8:53 AM, Eisboch wrote:

"F.O.A.D." wrote in message

I think the government ought to terminate the contract with KBR on 90
days notice, and let the contractors sue. Screw 'em.

As for the private guards who go to Iraq for the big bucks, as I stated,
they are going there for the money and if they get killed, it isn't as
if they were military volunteers who went there. I don't feel a sense of
loss or sorrow for the moneygrubbing paramilitary types if they come
home in a box.

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Interesting. Many of the paramilitary types are former military types
who can't find employment back at home.
I'd have a sense of sorrow for anyone who got killed trying to do their
job.

I'd of course feel a loss if and when these paramilitary contractors
were engaged in humanitarian efforts, such as guarding a convoy of
supplies heading to a clinic, or a convoy of food heading to a village.
or guarding a hospital.

They are attempting to do that sort of thing, along with trying to
maintain peace in a place that has been on the edge of civil war for a
decade. I suppose we could just get pout but if we do that we should
do it everywhere in the middle east and let the big dog eat.

I doubt Israel would last long tho ... at least without starting a
nuclear war.

If not for oil, I have no idea why we'd try to change the middle east to
a Christian society. Imagine what would happen in this country if a
massive military came here and said, hey, we don't like your religion,
so from now on, we want you to be Hindus.