Outsourcing war

[Ixiah]

Outsourcing the war has picked up quite a bit under Obama. Some things like the marked passage below are rather disturbing.

Until recently, the task of rescuing American soldiers was largely carried out by the military's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency. But Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has recommended that the agency's parent command in Virginia be closed. If the recovery agency is shut down, Blackbird would likely pick up the rescue business as it is outsourced. In that case, recovery of captured or stranded American soldiers "won't be a military command anymore; it will be a business," said the former Special Operations command aide (an agency spokesman said, "It's too early to say what will happen.")

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/11450_counterinsurgencyoutsourcingamericasnewmercenariesinafghanistanmiddleeastafrica

[Shirley Schmidt]

Sounds like a great idea to me.

They will not have to worry about that messy oversight business from those dummies in congress and can do whatever they need to in order to rescue our fighters.

I say give them free rein.

[pogo]

Shirley, you and I already know someone in that "business" and he has no problem with using the appropriate measure to ensure success.

[ISASO]

You mean we actually might start trying to win if we get the politicians out of the way?

[Ixiah]

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

- Dwight Eisenhower / Farewell address

http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html