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(1,501 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,627 posts)LW1977
(1,236 posts)You know how Bencheeto Mussolini likes to give jobs to whackjobs who shoudve stayed out of the limelight.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,858 posts)Devin Nunes?
PufPuf23
(8,839 posts)Don't give the T-Ass ideas.
backtoblue
(11,345 posts)Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Therefore, lets brace for Trump throwing that piece of garbage into consideration for SecDef.
lame54
(35,324 posts)Could happen
Does not have to be confirmed
LuckyCharms
(17,459 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,917 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,902 posts)His sister is Sec of Ed. Why not? Prince Devos Assery for everyone!
Atticus
(15,124 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Sorry if the site linked is right-wing. But the pertinent info is there. Note the names who had put kibosh on this fascistic plan: McMaster, Tillerson, Mattis. All three are gone and out of the way now.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2018/09/05/heres-the-blueprint-for-erik-princes-5-billion-plan-to-privatize-the-afghanistan-war/
Heres the blueprint for Erik Princes $5 billion plan to privatize the Afghanistan war
September 5, 2018
By: Tara Copp
Blackwater founder Erik Prince thinks the time is right to try a new approach in Afghanistan, one that he says will reduce war spending to a sliver of its current levels, get most troops home and eliminate Pakistans influence on U.S. policy there: Let him run it.
In an exclusive interview with Military Times, Prince shared new details about his proposed force and why he believes a small footprint of private military contractors and even smaller footprint of U.S. special operators may be able to accomplish what hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and NATO forces over the last 17 years could not.
Prince first presented the idea as President Donald Trump took office last year, hoping that the presidents long-stated opposition to keeping U.S. forces in Afghanistan would open the door to a privatized presence.
But Trump listened to his national security team instead, including critics of the plan like Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster.
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