Friday, March 23, 2007

On Citizen Soldiers and Mercenaries

I tend not to be an alarmist, but the following post raises troubling questions regarding the direction our defense apparatus may be headed. It focuses on concerns about the increased political strength of private armies like Blackwater, but reaches into broader concerns.

It fits with the previous topic regarding privatizing prisons, but here the consequences could be much more severe.

For background info, this is a mercenary, this is a citizen-soldier.