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The 'contractors' that were lynched in Fallujah - what, did you think they were plumbing contractors?
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I'm not talking about a few specialists. I mean cannon-fodder on a 19th century scale.
The world is full of poor young men with a penchant for violence. We are a very rich country that spends a fortune (in dollars) training and equiping our precious young men, only to spend another fortune (in societal angst) when one of them is killed. Then we spend billions more on foreign aid and bribes to try to convince other civilized countries to send
their precious young men into the same situation.
We can outsource call centers and programming to India for pennies on the dollar, but we can't outsource our most risky jobs to eager, low wage labor from around the world?