If it were up to Republicans and Lepertarians, the whole defense operation would be privatized. I wonder what Xe/Blackwater would have charged for a medevac flight into An Loc in 1972? As for the D-Day assault, Iwo Jima, or the 8th Air Force, forget it: There wasn’t enough money in the world to induce someone to do that, at least not someone who was capable of doing the job and not a drooling lunatic.