Mercenaries

I get tired of hearing ignorant right wingers tell us how wonderful all our troops are. I am a veteran with an honorable discharge and a couple of medals.

When you agree to join a military to fight and kill, and you do so primarily because of the money offered to you, this fits the definition of a mercenary. OK, these people have few skills and virtually no opportunity for financial success in America. That doesn't affect anything. Most did not join the military out of a sense of patriotism, rather it was from financial desperation.

Most of the people who over the years have joined the French Foreign Legion were misfits, escaped criminals, psychopaths, alcoholics and drug addicts, or other people who did not have opportunities in normal civilized society. So they became mercenaries.

It is time to begin telling the service people of the United States of America that they are expected to behave in a civilized fashion and live by the rules laid out in the U.S. Constitution.

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