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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (17714)2/1/2002 1:30:32 AM
From: Webster Groves  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
<<And I think you've hit the crux of the matter there SirRealist. These guys are mercenaries, coming from various nations to fight a war. And as such they cannot be deemed to be legitimate combatants under law of war. >>

Uh, now I'm getting a bit confused. I always thought that the Americans who volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War, the Battle of Britain, and with the Flying Tigers in China - all before the US involvement in WWII - that these guys were heroes and not mercenaries. But maybe you're right , maybe they were just mercenaries. Oh, wait a minute, a mercenary gets paid for killing, and these old timers didn't get paid - so they're not mercenaries after all. Same goes for the foreigners in Afghanistan (US excepted of course), they're not paid so they're not mercenaries. Think of them rather as just terrorists in training. Only people paid in Afghanistan were our wonderful Alliance allies and US forces, so what does that make them by your definition ?

-wg
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