The Old Is New Again

Ah, Flocons is back from China and apparently unharmed. And leaving comments! In response to the last post about the possibly-2-trillion-dollar cost of Iraq:

Holy crap! With that kind of money, they should have outsourced the whole project. I mean, I'm sure there would be other countries willing to invade Iraq for the United States for a fraction of that cost.

(Sorry, that's just the way things are done in the IT world.)

Actually, it's the way we used to fight wars, too. Mercenaries, baby. How do you think Switzerland got so rich? Oh, and of course it's something the US has brought back in to style - mercenaries are having palpitations over the money flying around over Iraq.