‘We need to pay even more money to the US military? $800 BILLION a year isn't enough?’ Here's an alternative takeaway: we should use those $800 billion better.

‘We need to pay even more money to the US military? $800 BILLION a year isn't enough?’ Here's an alternative takeaway: we should use those $800 billion better. Perhaps spend more of them on people who come home after war. ‘I wouldn't even consider that "greatest warrior of the month" material.’ Killing someone isn't super impressive, I guess. Doing so with minimum collateral damage in hostile environs is. ‘I don't know how many people outside the US are going to care too much about the plight of ex-mercenaries.’ Considering the general tendency of people to be interested in the US's interventionist policies, they may be interested in discussing a side that is rarely discussed. Also, please look up the definition of a mercenary. It seems reasonable that, like many, you meant to use it in a derogatory fashion; instead, you simply used it incorrectly. SEALs are US citizens fighting in their country's army, not a foreign one.