From Abu Ghraib To Kabul, Blackwater Members Are Drunk (propaganda)

Al Noor Newspaper (Baghdad) ^ | 06 SEPT 2009 | Not Given

[BCW]

It was Armor Group and they hired 3rd world nationals to do the perimeter guard - this is what happens when alcohol meets people who have never had it - or money for that matter....

the whole purpose of the article was to smear BW again - and they had nothing to do with it - Arabs lie - and they lie big time...

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Business models change. Xe is at least positioned and staffed to do this kind of work. Plus, they could probably afford to purchase and outfit a Caribbean island as their headquarters. They could hire a legion of Gurkhas, Sikhs, South Koreans, and other such light infantry talent. They would be out of the legal limelight, as far as US lawyers are concerned, a big plus.

With success, they might eventually create a mainland Africa base, since it is likely much of their activities would be conducted there, acting as a neutral peacekeeping force.

Ironically, a national military force that is ideally suited to do much the same work, but in the Middle East, is the Iraqi Army. Right now, they could easily equip and train an international grade force of two to three brigades to act as “Muslim peacekeepers”, through most of the Muslim world. With Shiite, and Sunni, and Kurds, they are not inherently a problem about anywhere.

For example, a brigade deployed to southern Lebanon would be far more effective than the UN forces there now. They would supplant Hezbollah, protecting the Lebanese Shiites from the other Lebanese, not be aggressive to Israel, not be offensive to Lebanese Sunni, or even Christians. What a juggling act.

Possibilities of the future.

[RevWillie56]

I like that Idea for Xe.
And the nice part is that there are Many Islands that would qualify. Xe Island; not the least bit catchy, but workable.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Clinton Secretary of State Madelyn Albright used the scheme of whenever anything happened around the world, to send some small, mostly unsupported, detachment of US military personnel to hang out there. In her mind, they were nothing more than beat cops. Extremely expensive ones, however.

So one of the first things W. Bush had to do was launch a quiet recall of most of these forces back to the US. But this raised a question: isn’t there a better, and a lot cheaper way, for the US to “show it cares?”

That is, we were stuck in the position where we either had to use high quality US military forces for jobs that entailed just standing around and keeping two tribes from throwing spears at each other, or just ignore it. There has to be a middle ground.

And this is where a foreign legion of light infantry comes in handy. They let the US poke its nose in places where maybe it should, like the Rwandan genocide, yet do it with mercenaries, not our sons and daughters, and at a fraction of the cost.