Do tell. Just what did everyone think was going on?

   Most folks have forgotten, or never considered, that President Kennedy was murdered because he understood that the CIA was full of ----, and would likely have dispensed with their services! He learned the hard way, at the Bay of Pigs. And, was "taught " a lesson, in Dallas, Texas.

    I personally believe that turning "war" into a private game of "cowboys and Indians" is a ludicrous policy: At this juncture, I can prove it by simply reminding everyone of the expensive and asinine outcomes that such policy produces.

    There are some functional "mercenary" organizations in the world. I've never heard of one anywhere in the U.S.! A gang of political, money-grubbing, psychopaths, with government backing (a new twist on plausable deniablity) isn't really a viable alternative to the military option.

    Let's get off the deluded notion that we are somehow above it all, and admit that we are more prone to violent responses than compassionate or "civil" ones. Being empathetic, sympathetic, and peaceable are what we sometimesw STRIVE for; in point of fact, if we don't run, we almost always fight. And, once engaged, we are brutal and, often, beyond savage, When there is no supervision or accountability, decency and common sense are very apt to be secondary to just about every response to anything that even seems to be contrary to stated goals...Usually, some form of survival.