"Hardest Of The Hardcore"

This article does shed light onto the whole "privatized warfare" that goes on in Iraq. The author, Fujitani, definitely poses good reasons why our military should not use these "civilian contractors," which is also a very misleading name. These mercenaries do have good and bad qualities about them. Most of these bad qualities Fujitani touches on in his essay, but what about some good qualities? Mercenaries allow high ranking military personnel get key jobs done faster and without losing the lives of our military soldiers.
Fujitani is right about how mercenaries are not really talked about in our country unless they "had been brutally killed, mutilated, and hung up on a bridge." The reason that this is most likely true is because that our country probably would not take to kindly to our military taking "alternative" ways to fighting oversees. It all just depends on how these "civilian contractors" are looked at and used.