The 19 True Things Generals Can't Say About Afghanistan

[Strike For The South]

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.

[Strike For The South]

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?

[Strike For The South]

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.

I'm glad you're back

[lars573]

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.