OT: Privatized War

[Puke]

the main thrust of one of the articles that I read was that the military WAS NOT backing them up. they were hired mostly by the military or the CIA, sometimes by private companies, and they were not getting military backup.

so the security companies were banding together to pool their resources and back each other up. collectively, it was described as the largest private army in the world.

Tesco: even in the US there seems to be coorinated anti-war effort from the media, which is funny because the media has been mostly pro-establishment and pro-war. maybe they're in someones pocket (well, they're definitly in someones pocket..) or maybe this is just the kind of news thats selling big right now. basically the only thing you will see on the news is what they think will make you want to watch more. would you like a coke with that?

why cant people just admit its all about land and money? i dont know why everyone pretends not to like land and money; i sure like land and money. i just wish that it would contribute directly to my standard of living. i'm all for someone else dieing for my standard of living, as long as they are paid enough to make it worth their while - which is why private armies are such a grand idea.

i guess its not so great for the poor bastards giving up the land and money, but thats evolution at work: to the victor go the spoils. Vie Victis. When its someone with a bigger stick coming after me, you wont hear me complaining at the unfairness of the world - thats just the way things go.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
This might just be slightly off topic... may be not... but the Last few days... there has been a cordinated media attack on the USA and with its conflicts in the middle east. This , Prisioner treatment, the helicopter attacks , I may have missed some of the other ones... But very cordinated.

By US press ?
Seems quite far reaching for me. So far, it is a US-US affair.

[Unknown_Enemy]

Originally posted by Puke:
Vie Victis. When its someone with a bigger stick coming after me, you wont hear me complaining at the unfairness of the world - thats just the way things go.

It's Vae Victis. Not vie.
Then you're obviously the sort who would use Arnald Amalric's command when asked to sort innocents from heretics : "Kill them all, God will look after His own."

Animals behave the way you describe.
But from you that's not unusual.

[Fyron]

Humans are no more than animals, afterall...

[Puke]

oh bah, sticks and stones. if we are name calling now then your folly sir, is hubris. humans are no more than animals, and animals no more than the sum of their constituant parts.

since the vast majority of mater is empty space, i submit that by extension you are nothing.

now cry havoc, and unleash the creationist activists!

edit: curst fyron beat me to it.

[ May 07, 2004, 21:00: Message edited by: Puke ]

[Fyron]

edit: curst fyron beat me to it.

I like your response better.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

If humans are nothing more than animals, why do I care what happens to antelope?