Pentagon spikes Bannon plan to install Betsy DeVos mercenary brother from taking over Afghanistan
Source: Raw Story
Sarah K. Burris
09 AUG 2017 AT 10:43 ET
The Pentagon has a message for Steve Bannon: Erik Prince has no place in any of Americas wars.
The Blackwater founder and brother to Betsy DeVos was the topic of conversation among the State Department, military and CIA as a possible hire. The mercenary firm has a history of taking advantage of the U.S.s overextension in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Pentagon is not interested in privatizing the war in Afghanistan, one former Pentagon official told The Daily Beast.
Prince has been the topic of conversation among the cable news shows after he was found to be yet another person connected to President Donald Trumps campaign who accidently met with Russians. However, Prince has no support among the Trump team, with the exception of Bannon.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/pentagon-spikes-bannon-plan-to-install-betsy-devos-mercenary-brother-from-taking-over-afghanistan/
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,452 posts)That there are some grown ups left at Pentagon!
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Buffoons of the highest order. Worse yet, very dangerous, locked and loaded mercenaries. How could that go wrong? Check out history and the fail of the Roman empire. The barbarians have breached the walls of democracy and decency.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Eugene
(61,974 posts)The fact that it was even on the table indicates the lunatics have way too much influence. If Bannon can get past Kelly and reach Trump, the Prince of Darkness is still in the game.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Bannon is working so hard to destroy this country, he does not have time to shower or shave.
benld74
(9,911 posts)The guy is a loon
atreides1
(16,103 posts)What Prince was really saying was that native peoples cannot be allowed to rule themselves, and that only white christians know how to properly deal with using the resources of a conquered people, to make life better for other white christians!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)This has been one of Corporate America's go items.
DBoon
(22,414 posts)White supremicist all the way down
benld74
(9,911 posts)Akamai
(1,779 posts)Company's mercenaries in other countries. I bet Thom is very pleased -- as we should all be with development -- I sure as hell am!!!
brush
(53,968 posts)been conquered is going to work in the 21st century.
Him and Bannon, warmongering fools. Supply lines over two continents and two oceans easy peasy. He can draw on his great success in Iraq .
What, those other countries bordering Afghanistan are going to allow us to airlift troops (mercenaries) through their airspace, or over their roads, like they are in favor of helping us colonize another country?
This dangerous individual is trump-like in his imaginings that the world would stand by and watch such outrageousness unfold.
Prince and Bannon need to take their meds and East India Company ideas back to the 17th century where instant, worldwide communication didn't exist and such overt militarism and exploitation could flourish without the colonizer nation becoming an instant pariah.
herding cats
(19,569 posts)Let's just hope it sticks.
Justice
(7,188 posts)Javaman
(62,534 posts)fuck that asshole.
Marthe48
(17,089 posts)This is like soap operas and tv dramas pulling in relatives from the main famiiy or cast to extend the plot line. I wonder when trump will run out of known associates?
riversedge
(70,417 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)tRump has all kinds of ideas on how to spend the treasury, doesn't he? He associates with all the slime he can find. Antone who is dishonest, welcome to the tRump fold.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)ANYONE.
riversedge
(70,417 posts)Marthe48
(17,089 posts)How does a 3rd rate paperboy get that kind of clearance? Where is the outrage? Where are the checks and balances vetting who has access to the administration of this country?
I guess whoever helped trump get in office is applauding the choices of personal and lack of Constitutional action to vet them. Such depraved infamy
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)Initech
(100,129 posts)God these people just fucking suck!
Kathy M
(1,242 posts)in the oval office is Pence ...... https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029124870
Duppers
(28,130 posts)An "in" in government. F all R's !!
But glad to know that some integrity exist in DoD/ Pentagon.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)as vice president, to outsource/privatize government functions
caving to the propaganda and pressure from the Heriturd Fuckdation and others of the koch ilk.
Bill, no--don't fall for it!!! Oops, too late then but let us hope dems are wiser now and on to the privatization scam.
elehhhhna
(32,076 posts)he put the VP in charge of privatisation, and his wife who had no authority whatsoever, in charge of reforming healthcare . Priorities I guess?
The office of personnel was privatized at the time the contract went to the Carlyle group was owned by the Bush family, the bin Ladens, and a handful of millionaires both foreign and domestic . What the actual fuck . That office performs security background checks should never have been outsourced.
Sidenote it was a private company that hired Snowden.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)in the Pentagon, we can only hope the collective voice there holds against the Bannon insanity. It's unbelievable that this was even briefly considered. Then again, look at the source.
meow2u3
(24,775 posts)We have no need for mercs in Afghanistan, nor do we need any more nepotism.
get the red out
(13,468 posts)I was worried about that possibility.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)But so far, even though it's groaning, it's creaking, and it's being strained, IT IS HOLDING!
Checks and balances BABY!
Chemisse
(30,821 posts)When prisons were privatized we had to incarcerate more people to keep the profits going. If armies were privatized, we would "need" constant wars.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)system to maximize profits, people, or the public, are badly taken advantage of at both ends. Duh?
US Healthcare
DeminPennswoods
(15,294 posts)privatizing every other job it does.
Akamai
(1,779 posts)and he noted that if one privatized conflicts one easily profit from them and he gave many examples in history of this.
I sure am glad the Pentagon has pushed back. Hartmann said Trump had a dinner with Prince.
Ilsa
(61,710 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)but I'm glad the grownups at the Pentagon are reining in the GOP in their plans to privatize everything. Although I suppose we could slash the Pentagon's budget by about 50% if they DID outsource their wars.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)these gems that don't make the ordinary news cycles.
truthisfreedom
(23,163 posts)syringis
(5,101 posts)Not at all. Keep staying with your democratics rules. Your Constitution have enough arms you can use. Yes, it is not easy, and yes, it takes time. It is meant to be hard for very good reasons : avoiding a fatal blow to the democracy.
You might reply me that a coup in this case, would be an exception, an exceptional answer to an exceptional juncture.
Yes, maybe. But it is EXACTLY why not to jump in. Exception is the key word.
Once you make an exception in law, you opens Pandora's box. Because you will set a precedent.
And then, how will you define a exception? Who will stop any having the power to change the rules, if he decides to change them for his benefit or whatever? Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will guard the guard?
And from an exception to another, democracy will be just buried...
Vinca
(50,323 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)Where did it say the Pentagon spiked the Blackwater plan? I read that a former Pentagon official stated the Pentagon wasn't interested. What did I miss, help?