At the time Israel was procuring the services of combat veterans to train and fight alongside their own soldiers, It was also one of the American countries , I believe- Peru, who were hiring us as palace guards . Probably because we could be trusted more than their own since we had no political connections in their own country. In Both instances, the pay was very good at the time , and they paid in gold, not greenbacks according to recruiters for their country. Many of us with wives and families to support and little in the way of marketable skills we believed really considered these offers as protecting Israel was seen as a good thing at the time and we had little knowledge of what the situation was in South American and bodyguard could be a career in US later. But most of us did not want any more violence, so we skipped the good pay. The US allowed it whenever it met with their economic interests. I suspect Colombia like the US is facing a backlash from supporting the rich buying their peoples lives with little return to the government coffers or peoples well-being through other means.
These wars are about money and wealth distribution. The leaders of oil rich countries continue their fights using up their accumulated oil wealth to try to remain in control, meanwhile ISIS and other groups use their past signs against them, the biggest being the obscenity of their wealth in comparison with their relatively poor people . These movements Al Qaeda, ISIS, may be spurred by religious issues but it is the anger of the poor and and the unemployed that provide those willing to fight whatever scapegoats those seeking wealth from a change in power. In short the discontented poor grow more angry, they cannot individually fight their own government, and scapegoats for their poverty and ill fortune are pointed out to give a moral purpose for war , Religious leaders seeking more power and more money for themselves gladly encourage this fight as a Crusade as Christians did before, but to borrow their language a Jihad and the poor continue to die as the obscenely reach try to protect their accumulated wealth.
This goes on now,in our country. But since we went to a better paid volunteer Army, the neocons and the rich can sleep better believing that the young men and women signed on willingly and it is business, it ain't personal you know. I did not select you to die as we did during past wars, you chose this job. I really am not responsible for your death although I encourage and support wars to promote more and more accumulation of wealth I can never really satisfy. It is just another fence I build around my psyche to muffle the sounds of grieving widows, mothers, fathers and children who have lost their loved ones in our military incursions. It is time to stop using a lack of jobs here at home and around the world to provide young men and women to protect and expand the fortunes of oligarchies and strong men dictatorships.
Hillary has told us her foreign view is first to work with middle east strongmen for our interests and then democracy. When she says interests she means increasing the money and power of our corporations and those who own them.
Bernie favors discontinuing these wars supporting dictators and focusing on the domestic needs of our people and humanitarian crises around the world especially protection of those clearly persecuted based on religion.
It is your choice, choose a person whose campaign like Hillary whose campaign depends on large contributions and control of main stream media owned by the oligarchy intent on increasing their wealth by any means possible including of endless war, or vote for Bernie who is owned by the people body and soul, and fights the oligarchy and their foreign policy of endless war killing and maiming millions everywhere.

They are completely accustomed to war by now.

They shouldn't be surprised that this has happened now as the peace talks with revolutionaries are underway.

To fight their wars, then you can bet revolution is not far behind.

Now hiring experienced military trainers and palace guards is par for the course for most newly minted governments