kOskiDDies to troops - "Screw'em"

kOskiDDies get petulant when citizens and soldiers say something they don't like.

This, of course, is a point I have brought up many times and the Milblogs when crazy then. You, the military, are the servants of the people. That is what you signed up for. We send you to war and we bring you home. We tell you when to wake up and when to go to bed. If you do not like that, GET OUT. But, that is the life you chose.

The next thing the milblog right wingers were upset about was when
Arkin called our Military a mercenary force. Well, guess what, it is!! To get
people to fight this war we have had to add all sorts of additional benefits,
bonuses, insurance etc. The only way to get people to go was to pay them a lot
more - the definition of a mercenary. Also, if you count the 100,000 or so
"contractors" over there, that is even more evidence of a mercenary force. I called it at this post last year.

If the military is going to "take on" the American public by saying we have no right to change how we want to deploy them then they have joined the fight. I have said all along, and in the book, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War the idea that the American military has lost contact with the United States Citizens has been proven. They have. Arkin called it right!

I sure hope they don't hold their breath until we apologize. Of course, then they'll really be blue.