Here’s the blueprint for Erik Prince’s $5 billion plan to privatize the Afghanistan war

We are overlooking the fact that his company could not provide security without capricious violence. What should make me confident of him now? The fact of the matter is, the Taliban want a united Afghanistan. No military or civilians can change there mind otherwise.

I follow, your logic, certainly, however, that was obviously an altogether different period in history...honestly, I've never qiie known what to make of that whole notion, you know? I get your point, certainly, however, there are just some things that can't be privatized, something's that are inherentlypirely govern!dental functions, at least to !e turn of mind, at Amy rate, as I think about the whole topic, I realize I could be wrong, certainly, however, that's how I perceive it, at any rate, you know?

It’s a bad idea. What part of the Geneva Convention are they going to fall in? So we’re just going to up and redo a SOFA for ‘contractors’....no matter who is there, the actual military will have to lend some support. Where does that leave the troops when it hits the fan? What jurisdiction are they going to fall in? If this was to happen, you’d have every single ‘I wanna shoot someone’ lined up for a paycheck and a bullet. Not saying that’s not how it is in the military to a point, but we can more easily weed them out while keeping those who will do that AND accomplish the mission legally. Prince is looking out at his bottom line. He got rebuffed under Bush/Obama and has an ‘in’ with his sister in a cabinet position, and a President who loves making ‘deals’. If Mattis thinks this is a bad idea, there’s wisdom there. Mans has been fighting wars after he came out of Patton. That is something Prince doesn’t get on the bigger scale. Bad idea, bad timing, worse person to give the proposal