[Behind the Blue Wall]

I know nothing of military affairs, but it certainly sounds interesting. Whatever we're doing now is apparently not working all that well. $63 billion this year, plus how many lives? Seventeen years on.

[proust]

If namesless former officials (*cough* Brennan) are against it, I’m for it.

[joesbucks]

Are our great generals incapable of closing out the war?

[Cobra64]

Methinks Blackwater personnel would act as mercenaries. Further, I believe mercenaries have fewer constraints in battle against bad guys. If these assumptions are valid, this is a good thing for our side. IMOHO 😁

[grania]

We should get OUT of Afghanistan. That was a campaign promise. President Trump got delayed for what was supposed to be a short amount of time to get things ready for a smooth transition. Seems to me, at over a year in office, it's past time.

A war run by private contractors? That's insane. There should be much less, or no use of private contractors in global endeavors. If someone wants to serve the US, they should join up.

[rfp1234]

Not a bad idea. Maybe he’s read a few Tom Clancy books.

[wrcase]

If Erik Prince wants to wage a private war, then he better be on the hook for every penny of expense. No taxpayer money for mercenaries.

[JudgemAll]

I hear Chinese businessmen are hiring him in Africa to protect them from angry blacks

[SuperLuminal]

Erik would get the job done in the most sane and expeditious way possible... When he finishes there he needs to receive a contract to clean out every trace of the deep stare communists...

[Trumpisourlastchance]

We should get out of Afghanistan. It’s a black hole sucking lives & money.

[Lurkinanloomin]

We should get out of Afghanistan and quit wasting money.
No one has ever tamed it and no one ever will.

[AlaskaErik]

I never understood why we don’t have an American Foreign Legion. It certainly works for France.

[SunkenCiv]

Prince's idea, which first surfaced last year during the president's Afghanistan strategy review, envisions replacing troops with private military contractors who would work for a special U.S. envoy for the war who would report directly to the president... his advisers are worried his impatience with the Afghanistan conflict will cause him to seriously consider proposals like Prince's or abruptly order a complete U.S. withdrawal, officials said.

Oh no -- an abrupt complete withdrawal! Heavens to Betsy!

Using a private contractor would keep the worldwide supply of mercs busy in one place. Thanks Behind the Blue Wall.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Ron Paul was right again.
The Constitution already provides a tool to fight terrorists: Letters of Marquis and Reprisal.

[Eternal_Bear]

Mercs are k for coups and security but you can’t use them to fight an entire culture.

[VTenigma]

How about we just call it a wrap. If we need to go back we go “scorched earth”.

[trebb]

Sounds more like someone trying to get the Trump concern trolls all worked up about something else...

[DoodleDawg]

If you’re making billions of dollars per year fighting the war then where is the incentive to end it?