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    Default Re: The 19 True Things Generals Can't Say About Afghanistan

    And by PMC we mean mercenary

    Not that I particularly mind that we are using them, just don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining. It of course speaks to the larger issue of the American gov't sanitizing everything to keep the hawks hawkish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
    Personally i've always found it very shallow to go so out of the way to *not* call them Mercenaries. They're not rough and tumble vagabonds, but they certainly qualify as Mercenaries as far as my common-sense meter goes.
    We are paying private companies to carry out military missions

    I don't see where the disconnect is here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
    There is no disconnect. But Big Brother would prefer it if you continued executing doublethink properly.
    Did you just retake 10th grade english? Why all the 1984 refrences?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube View Post
    Because they pertain to the discussion at hand? Maybe I'm making some ultra subtle political statement (so subtle, in fact, that it's LACK of subtlety is in fact a form of subtlety!?!?)? Am I just out of my gourd?

    Or.. more likely.. Big Brother told me to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Strike For The South View Post
    We are paying private companies to carry out military missions

    I don't see where the disconnect is here.
    The disconnect is that modern mercs have earned themselves bad reps.
    But this group of British persons explains it better.
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