... my was mainly snarky and sardonic (or, at least, attempted to be such).

  Actually, I was just (perhaps feebly) attempting to illustrate that when you have conscripts or, even mercenaries, fighting for causes and countries that they don't really believe in, the conscripting army is just asking for morale and disciplinary trouble, on top of true "will to fight" trouble.

  So, it is indeed plausible that we could "outsource" even some of our combat capabilities, but that's begging for even more trouble and makes us look even more "Colonial" and "Imperial" than we already do.  

  And if we "outsource" non-combat jobs (what?  logistical, I.T., transportation, K.P. for goodness sake?!) in war zones, well the intel breaches would be a nightmare -- just look what happened less than a month ago at that "field cafeteria" in Iraq . . .

  Bottom Line:  Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their various hangers-on and neo-con tiny-little-brain trusters, have totally boned our military.  And our country.

  BenGoshi
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