Mercenaries At Home

Chris Hedges What If Our Mercenaries Turn on Us?http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060407J.shtml

Chris Hedges writes: "The privatization of war hands an incentive to American corporations, many with tremendous political clout, to keep us mired down in Iraq. But even more disturbing is the steady rise of this modern Praetorian Guard.

The Praetorian Guard in ancient Rome was a paramilitary force that defied legal constraints, made violence part of the political discourse, and eventually plunged the Roman Republic into tyranny and despotism."