All I know about Karzai is what I read in the MSM - which I automatically distrust, until I do my own digging around, which I haven't in his case.
No matter: he is right on this one. Mercenaries aka 'private contractors' should go and the draft should be re-introduced - NOT because I want more Americans killed, but Cheney and Rumsfeld were evil geniuses (sic) who'd learned from the Vietnam War that the draft brought home to millions of Americans what was really going on and led to mass protests.
Now the general public is mute - who cares when you have an army of people who probably couldn't get any other job, augmented by immigrants hoping to get citizenship and mercenaries who are basically rogues who'll do anything for money ... and I seem to recall that Cheney, Rumsfeld, or both are deeply involved in Halliburton, Blackwater, or whatever companies employ these mercenaries.
Perhaps someone with a better memory than I can clarify this.
Whatever, on a historical note, a significant factor in the end of the Roman Empire was employing mercenaries, when Roman citizens lost interest in forming legions.
But I re-iterate that I don't want more Americans to die in these futile wars, it's just a fact that when the general public HAS to deal with being drafted resistance grows.
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