I understand why we are using mercenaries, but this has never sat well with me. Besides the outrageously high taxpayer costs, the lack of control and oversite, the ability to avoid impacting the nation as much as possible (and allowing people to ignore the problem), one of the big problems that I have with these guys is the statelessness of these people. They are just hired guns /mercenaries and will take anyone's money to do anything.
Is that who we want representing America in such a delicate environment? The people who join these companies are clearly doing it just for the cash which may be understandable from a personal perspective, but from a US perspective, it's not quite as compelling. It's the owners who I find most disturbing because they give the impression to doing anything, for anyone, for cash.
Cofer Black, a former head of the CIA Counterterrorism Center and now vice-chairman of Blackwater, said the company is ready to tackle more hot spots."My company could deploy a reasonable small force under guidance or leadership of any national authority and do a terrific job of protecting, you know, innocent women from being raped, young kids from having their arms hacked off with machetes."
Somehow I'm just not seeing them as a "rape protection" outfit or just being there to prevent kids arms from being cut off. Sounds like marketing spin/bullshit to me.
