Bolton open to privatizing military operations in Afghanistan
Source: The Hill
BY MICHAEL BURKE - 08/19/18 10:10 AM EDT
White House national security adviser John Bolton on Sunday said hes open to privatizing military operations in Afghanistan following reports last week that President Trump is considering the option.
When asked about the idea on ABCs This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Bolton said there are always a lot of discussions.
Im always open to new ideas, he said. But I'm not going to comment on what the thinking is. That'll ultimately be the president's decision.
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louis c
(8,652 posts)...what could go wrong? Don't they do that in every dictatorship?
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Freethinker65
(10,021 posts)I guess they knew what they were doing all this time they were bankrolling the GOP.
It is ALL about the money!
Snellius
(6,881 posts)Fearful of repeating the foreign policy mistakes of the George W. Bush and Obama administrations, top Trump aides Jared Kushner and Stephen K. Bannon have recently turned to Erik Prince and Stephen Feinberg for help. According to a report in the New York Times, Prince, the founder of Blackwater, and Feinberg, the CEO of the holding company that owns DynCorp, are championing private military alternatives to a recommitment of uniformed personnel in Afghanistan.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-michaels-privatization-military-20170720-story.html#
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Of course he does. Disgusting POS.
dem4decades
(11,294 posts)It's getting more like 1930's Germany every day.
EX500rider
(10,848 posts)The purpose of the act is to limit the powers of the federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce domestic policies within the United States.
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)We've always been at war with Eastasia.....
Given that Giuliani said "Truth isn't truth" today (8/19/18) I'm currently on the lookout for Winston and Julia.
Careful, Orange Anus is watching you!
90-percent
(6,829 posts)Kill 'em all, let God sort it out. Merc's don't have to abide by any military code of conduct.
They can go out and kill all the brown rag heads they can find and go home and mount the heads of their kills in their den as if they were big game.
Like they did in Iraq ten or fifteen years ago. (Except for the wall trophies. I made that up.)
-90% Jimmy
TheBlackAdder
(28,201 posts).
It's time to take the fleecing of America to the next level.
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turbinetree
(24,701 posts)and when your fucking traitor hero Prince was running around over there he had to get permission to be fucking around over there with contractors, and if you think your traitor boss is just going to flip a switch and have the military operations come under some fucking private contractor....................not happening.............this is taxpayer dollars we are talking about, and I think we need transparency, and by the way hows that Spectrum Health System (Devos family owned and operated) and Putin's daughter investigation going on, heard anything lately on that front, National Security Adviser.....................just asking.........................or is it just coincidence, you know that is still in the back ground..........................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.......................vote
90-percent
(6,829 posts)When they're done legally murdering people, the state doesn't have to pay for lifelong education or health care benefits. We taxpayers won't have to foot the bill for all those lavish Trump-like palatial VA Centers where veterans get free cosmetic surgery and 24/7 care and country clubs and limousine ambulances.
And colorful cocktails with as many umbrellas as they want! And two girls for every boy.
-90% Jimmy
2naSalit
(86,620 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)the wars in the ME, and wants to make even more. I bet the gop are all jumping onboard, rubbing their hands in expectation of filling their bank accounts from private wars. Erik Prince belongs in prison, not in charge of his own private army, funded by taxpayers. Bolton said the idea of revoking security clearances was suggested by RAND Paul. Right after he visited the Kremlin, delivering tRump's love note to Vlad.
modrepub
(3,495 posts)Tax payers will ultimately foot the bill when thing inevitably go wrong.
FarPoint
(12,372 posts)Maybe the " Iron Bank from Game of Thrones"?
Additionally....no Veterans Benefits....poor medical in the field and a at home...bet there will be crummy Workers Compensation Benefits....Think about how bad this idea actually is....
heaven05
(18,124 posts)from our huge threat in the middle east, Iraq. A POS if ever I studied one. Especially when he was part of the cheney-bush debacle in Iraq where cheney made millions and 'black water' mercenaries were walking off with duffle bags full of money. A conservative estimate was close to a billion dollars went missing during that "war". So much went to so few, meanwhile 5000 soldiers never came home over 20,000 were pushed into our VA system and over 1,000,000,000 Iraqi civilians, men, women and children killed. No figure on the wounded. And now this POS bolton got his hands on that war again.
Midnight Writer
(21,766 posts)Puppyjive
(502 posts)That is what privatization does. We can't afford to pay government contractors the amount we pay them. We pay them sickening amounts to sell and train arms to countries that turn around and kill Americans. When is the shit show going to stop?