Mercenaries

[HolyGuardianAngels]

EVERYONE else gets PAID . . .
Every job gets a pay check . . .

Sooo especially the Soldiers, should be . . .


Why would anyone believe that a Solider, should risk life and limb for NO remuneration . . .


Got money, will kill . . .



AMERICA, have you ever counted how many countries have Kings and Queens vs how many Americas . . .


The land of the Free, the home of the Brave . . .

 

[Ponderer]

I am not sure I understand the point you are trying to make?

You seem to be suggesting that it is acceptable for soldiers to get paid for their work. Well as an ex-soldier myself I would not argue with that principle. So who or where was suggesting that the paying of soldiers is unacceptable or immoral etc?

If you are refering to people who go and fight in wars without the sanction of their own government then are they all to be viewed as mercenaries?


Clearly if such people take up arms against their own national government and people then expressions such as traitor come to mind . Mind you would you call every German Italian or Japanese who worked for the allied side in WW2 a traitor ? technically they were I suppose but most people today would say that they were on the side of the greater good.

What if today some European or American person decided to take up arms and fight the Sudanese forces and the illegal militias they support raping and killing in Western Sudan ? Would such a person be branded as a mercenary simply for joining a fight that did not have the approval of his own government? Or could they be seen as taking up arms for a just cause? Now if they were paid by the body count then that might be highly questionable. Also if they simply joined such a fight as a means to make money then there are moral issues to be raised but if they are fighting to stop what they percieve as evil then are their actions legitimate?

I think all of these issues need to be considered when tossing about the term Mercenary.

For example what about those Americans who signed up with French forces in WW1 or UK forces in WW2 to fight against Germany at a time when the US was neutral?