US military contractors are champing at the bit to be included in a potential US ground war against ISIS, with analysts saying many of the companies see the ISIS “marketplace” as a potential gold mine.
Officials say that using contractors as the “boots on the ground” in Iraq would be a political boon for President Obama, who could sort of avoid going back on his promise not to get US troops into combat roles.
Nominally, the contractors aren’t supposed to engage in combat either, but analysts say that they are allowed to “provide security,” which in this case is a distinction without a difference.
During the last US occupation of Iraq, there were at times over 180,000 private contractors on the ground in the country. With the US hoping to do the next war with fewer US ground troops, the percentage of contractors are likely to be much larger.
Ah, yes. The real reason for the ongoing "wars". And I was told it was for freedom and democracy.
These private contractors are worst than the US army.
Yes, let's set loose a huge mercenary army whose only loyalty is to the dollar. What could go wrong with that?
Then we can care even less about casualties and war crimes when there are mercenaries over there doing it just for the money…which they rake in at a staggering clip, way more than our actual soldiers.
Someone remind me how Obama is different from Bush? (Other than skin color and his stance on gay marriages and abortion?)
Give the money and equipment to the Iranian and Syrian and Iraqi governments and they will defeat these barbarians in weeks. In the other hand pentagon or WH for that matter don't want to show a lower jobless numbers before elections!