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Quote:Which raises the question, why are Blackwater and other mercenary outfits still playing such a big role in Iraq?
The answer would apparently lie in other parts of the original post
Quote: "the private military industry has suffered more losses in Iraq than the rest of the coalition of allied nations combined."
Quote:And, yes, the so-called private security contractors are mercenaries. They're heavily armed. They carry out military missions
Quote:One of the many reasons why the civilized world has come to accept a moral prohibition on mercenaries is that moral intuition tells us that money is the wrong reason for a person to go onto a battlefield, that war is a unique environment and that soldiers who kill and risk dying for a cause should do so primarily because the cause is right, not because the price is right.
Taking money to kill people, is more acceptable than being brainwashed to kill people, or killing people for ones ideology, or killing people because your government says so, with no idea of the rights and wrongs?
