Question for Kos - Markos;
You consider the four men killed in Fallujah "Mercenaries", because they are former soldiers who are using their lifetime of professional soldiering in a civilian career. They were hired by a private company, as they are by private companies all over the world, to provide security for their operations, as well as to add non-military security to peripheral government-run operations that aren't strictly military.
So answer me this, Kos; would you prefer the military provide security for private enterprises in Iraq? Had soldiers died defending a private company, would it have been better?
And with that, I big the Kos topic goodbye. I don't think we'll be hearing much more from him anyway.
Posted by Mitch at April 6, 2004 11:24 AM