The Empire's Tentacles
The White House's motives are obvious. Why fight another war, with all the bother of convincing Congress, if you can quietly hire a private military company to fight it for you? Why interrogate suspected insurgents if you can outsource the whole messy business? Why go through the tedious process of training Afghan judges if DynCorp will handle it instead -- as long as you're
not too picky about the results?
As for the corporations so eagerly lapping up the contracting dollars, there's no conspiracy -- it's just the good old profit motive. If the White House wants to sell off U.S. foreign policy, someone's going to buy it. Prince, the former Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater, is straightforward about his company's goal: "We're trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the Postal Service."
Since FedEx rendered the post office irrelevant for all but the most trivial forms of mail, this means you can kiss our national security apparatus goodbye.
Comments
This is not some corporate training session. The persons that are providing training are US citizens that are working to restore order and pass on the western style of policing and law enforcement in general. These are the same persons that train our own employees all over the continental United States. The are experts in their field. They all go for different reasons, but each and everyone goes to help both the country they are assigned to as well as protect all of YOU, the very persons that choose to degrade the job they do. Would you rather have our US military, or maybe IRAN train the police. In our country it is illegal for the military to train law enforcement. There is a reason for that, so it goes without saying that our Police are perfectly suited to train those persons in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, Bosnia, Kosovo etc to police with human rights, basic freedoms we all would like such as a fair and equitable form of Justice.
Why not support our US government and all of the patriots that are working in sometimes very substandard living conditions. You ever tried sleeping in a tent in the desert where temperatures reach 46C or better. Or maybe when was the last time you went to work and had someone try to shoot you or blow you up. While we see it in the news occasionally, it is not the norm and that is due in part to these very people and organizations that you chose to degrate. But this is America the Free and you can say these things because hard men are doing hard jobs both in our country and out so you can sleep tonight.
Get a good nights rest.
So the issue here is really one of transparency.
As for being a patriot and such, since when did supporting the current administration or a war entered into on false pretenses -- one I opposed before it started -- become the sign of one's patriotism.
And yes, I slept pretty well last night.