The government gives them food,shelter,free education,free top of the line health care for them and their families,good goverment jobs when they leave the miltary and they know they can be charged with treason and murder if they fight against the government. I'm sure they will give up the benefits and risk treason and murder charges to fight on your side
Then you probably already knew that over the last several years they've shaken the dust off some M-14's and issued them to our troops. In many instances the M-16 just doesn't cut it.
Im curious where all the liberals who bitched about waterboarding non-u.s. citizens have suddenly dissappeared to.
Water boarding foreign terrorists by a republican administration = OMG! Murdering US citizens a radical leftist administration doesn't like = no problem.
It doesn't matter which of the two political parties is in power, they just CYA for each other and the people and the rule of law be damned. Chip Pitts, a Lecturer in Law at Stanford University Law School, is focused on what he calls the "complicity" between the Bush and Obama administrations. "The crisis of accountability in America is starkly highlighted by the former president's public confession of recourse to torture and war crimes," he told IPS. "But that should not detract attention from the complicity of the current administration, which has resorted to secrecy and backroom deals that blatantly ignore laws - like the Convention Against Torture, in this case - and the administration's duty to 'faithfully execute the laws'." link to article http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53535 pdf file: