Quote Originally Posted by Beirut
Would you be so kind as put arrows pointing to the expendable American "I died for cheaper gas" soldiers on that APC?

They all just look like young guys with families to me, but what do I know...
That's the reason why professional armies are superior to conscripts. Important people are conscripted, but they won't enlist. So, with a professional army, only poor people dies, and they're expendable. As long as we rich, important people lives and gets richer, the world is good.