Posted by
Jon on Monday, April 30, 2007 2:04:43 PM
As much as I loved
300, this isn't about that. I was reading
this article by
Austin Bay and remembered something I was thinking the other day. For all the fuss about "mercenaries" recently related to a columnist at the Washington Post, there have ever been only two kinds of soldiers: slaves and mercenaries. We chose mercenaries when we discontinued the draft and I see no reason to go back. Up the pay to soldiers if supply is too low and be proud that we have an army where they "volunteer" for money instead of "serve" at gunpoint.