Reply #23: I think that's an erroneous statement, thunder rising. It's more likely that the privatization [View All]

[bertman]

campaign convinced the government that it would be better to use the military for soldiering and hire the "pros" to escort government officials. The argument would be that it would free up more of our military types to do their work.

This was a hugely pervasive meme over the last twenty-five or thirty years that was being pushed by the "smaller gummint" crowd.

Our military, especially the elite groups, would be exceptionally good at guarding the diplomatic corps.

This has to do with giving government contracts to groups affiliated with the War Industry. Eric Prince jumped on that bandwagon and got a huge boost from BushCo.