For-profit president plans to turn war into a for-profit mercenary venture

[Amadeus]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/...stan-policy-erik-prince-stephen-feinberg.html

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a56260/bannon-erik-prince-afghanistan/

Erik D. Prince, a founder of the private security firm Blackwater Worldwide, and Stephen A. Feinberg, a billionaire financier who owns the giant military contractor DynCorp International, have developed proposals to rely on contractors instead of American troops in Afghanistan at the behest of Stephen K. Bannon, Mr. Trump's chief strategist, and Jared Kushner, his senior adviser and son-in-law, according to people briefed on the conversations.

Is this what Trumpeteers voted for?

 

[blackascoal]

 

[anatta]

Last month, Mr. Trump gave the Pentagon authority to send more American troops to Afghanistan — a number believed to be about 4,000 — as a stopgap measure to stabilize the security situation there. But as the administration grapples with a longer-term strategy, Mr. Trump’s aides have expressed concern that he will be locked into policies that failed under the past two presidents.

Mr. McFate, who used to work for DynCorp in Africa, said it could train and equip the Afghan Army, a costly, sometimes dangerous mission now handled by the American military. “The appeal to that,” he said, “is you limit your boots on the ground and you limit your casualties.” Some officials noted that under the government’s conflict-of-interest rules, DynCorp would not get a master contract to run operations in Afghanistan.

no good options.
1.leave and the Taliban takes over and it goes back to a 'terrorist training ground' like pre-9/11

2.so called "green on blue" killings ( rogue AFNA killing UN 'blue hats') have become a major source of US casualties
( when helicopters are not crashing)

3.turn it over to mercenaries and pay them to get killed

 

[Sailor]

Hey. A man's got to eat.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

it continues to amaze me how stupid lib'ruls must be to believe the things they post.......