WAR
Summary

Shannon had heard that the CIA was employing mercenaries to train anti-communist Meos in Cambodia and that the sheikhs were looking for their own military advisers and fighters. But he knew that such stories were not true. He realized that no good war was taking place except bad peace.
 War is bad. Everybody knows its disadvantages. If people thinks that profit are more important than the loss they knowingly take the risk.

Answers:
   a)      I think he is being ironic.
   b)      He considers peace would be nasty because he would be jobless.
   c)      A good war would pay him a lot.
   d)     No, I wouldn’t.
   e)      Such mercenaries do not love their life and they enjoy playing in danger.