Reply #47: 4 poor schmucks paid for bad policy with their lives [View All]

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I'm dead set against corporate mercenary armies, but I feel bad for the 4 poor guys who paid for a bad policy with their lives. I'm sure these guys weren't terribly sophisticated politically and had not read a stack of policy papers on these issues. The policy experts are supposed to generate the papers, the ethics experts chime in, and then society is supposed to weigh all these factors and make a reasoned decision regarding serious issues like Americans acting as soldiers-for-hire in a theater of conflict. This process totally broke down. The US did not analyze policy on these issues, and the poor bastards paid for that error with their lives.