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Afghan officials reject push to privatize war
Afghan officials have rejected a proposal by Blackwater founder Erik Prince to have his private military contracting company take over the training and advising of the Afghan armed forces.
Prince lobbied several Afghan politicians on a recent trip to the country and has been discussing his proposal to privatize parts of the U.S. military mission in the country for over a year, according to Reuters.
But Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has repeatedly dismissed the idea. "Under no circumstances will the Afghan government and people allow the counterterrorism fight to become a private, for-profit business," Ghani's national security adviser said in a statement to Reuters Thursday.
U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has also rejected the proposal, saying in August, "When Americans put their nation's credibility on the line, privatizing it is probably not a wise idea."
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07 2018, @01:41AM
But not accurate with respect to pretty much everything else.
Then why did you bring up 7.62 NATO instead, even though you knew it was irrelevant, and knew that no ammo the US military would have used could be accurately said to "make a hole in your body not much larger than the diameter of the round"?
But hey, if you made up that bullshit your own self, instead of mistakenly placing your trust in someone who seems to know what they're talking about...
I take back what I said about you being used, and I apologize for not calling you a liar or a moron instead.
So which is it? You know the truth, and are lying your ass off?
Or so stupid you managed to fight a war without learning anything about the laws of war, or the terminal ballistics of the various cartridges you and your buddies were using?