White House looks to replace U.S. troops in Afghanistan with mercenaries This will not end well.

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

The White House wants mercenaries to lead U.S. policy in Afghanistan.

According to a new report from the New York Times, the White House asked Erik D. Prince, the founder of the private military firm Blackwater, and Stephen A. Feinberg, the billionaire owner of DynCorp International, to use contractors instead of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Steve Bannon, the White House Chief Strategist, and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, asked Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to hear the two men’s ideas. But Mattis said he would not include outside strategies in a review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan, which he is currently working on with National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster.

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/blackwater-trump-afghanistan-strategy-4a35c39b277

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Do ya think this is why these assholes should have there security clearances removed?

I really don't like people as corrupt as this bunch going over and having secret meetings with a Devos clan member on a island in Africa plotting on making millions is some fucking crusade

[keithbvadu2]

1. Four mercenaries died in Fallujah under Eric Prince's leadership.

Four mercenaries died in Fallujah under Eric Prince's leadership.

Two(?) of their bodies were strung up on the bridge.

[Sunlei]

5. & about 30,000 civies? & birth defects galore today from OUR war garbage left their in soil & water

[atreides1]

7. GOOD!!!

That's exactly what should happen to mercs!!! Maybe one day Prince will be found hanging from a bridge, too!!!

Mercs don't deserve protection and the more that get hung on bridges and set on fire, the better!!!

[EX500rider]

11. So if a NGO needs security, the guys they hire deserve to be strung up & set on fire?

How sweet...

How about guards on cargo ships in pirate waters? Also deserve to die?

You do know the longest serving mercenary troops are the Pope's Swiss Guard?

[DK504]

12. That is what NATO is for.

We shouldn't have mercenaries any where near us.

[EX500rider]

14. NATO is to guard NGO camps around the world and ships? I don't think so..

...they don't guard banks either..

[cstanleytech]

2. For some reason I suspect this isnt about draining the swamp for them so much as draining the

taxpayer money.

[Hoyt]

3. Draft the darn gun fanciers who are into training to shoot people.

[Sunlei]

4. thought Blackwater worked for Saudi 'security' crushing Saudi 'protest' -the past 6 years?

Who will Blackwater kill & CRUSH now? and WHO will pay for them?

[DashOneBravo]

10. Actually they been used

By the US Govenment. Even during President Obama and Sec Clinton time in office. I know of one at an airbase in Afghanistan thats been going on for years.

Huffpost did an article on them being used.

[DK504]

13. How many millions upon millions of taxpayer dollars have we had to pay for

this shit.

Mercenaries with no accountability for the crimes they will commit.

The cost of using mercenaries rather than US or NATO/Allied troops will rocket upwards by 10x's and we will be on the hook for it.

The crimes they WILL commit will cause retaliation by extremists that we have created.

Besides the cronyism, the blatant cronyism of this WH is completely out of control and must be stopped.

[Achilleaze]

6. Yet another profit center for the republican chickenhawks

can't believe how swiftly & submissively republican chickenhawks have fallen in behind the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief and his War Profiteering schemes. Sad.

[Squinch]

8. Well, Trump has to pay the family back somehow for all those donations.

[OldRedneck]

9. Great idea!!!

Start by enrolling all the Oath Keepers, Three Peercenters, and other gun-totin' wackadoodles.

[olddad56]

15. this is nothing new, the Bush Crime Family used Blackwater extensively in Iraq