Blackwater CEO: US government will always need 'companies like us'

Blackwater CEO: US government will always need 'companies like us'

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However Blackwater founder and CEO Eric Prince doesn't believe the US government can do without him. In a drive around Blackwater's training center in Moyock, NC, Prince acknowledged that "we take a lot of grief for the work we've done," but he also boasted to the Associated Press about his firm's operations, including "the guys that fly into rough, unimproved strips to do tactical airlift support."

"You know, we did 11,000 missions last year in Afghanistan," Prince said. "Our total invoice ... was less than the air force is spending on one C-27 aircraft. ... It's a benefit to the US government to go to the outside to do that mission."

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As bad as it seems, he is probably right. The government will look to other guys to do the dirty work. Then when it hits the fan, they can say well the contractors were behind this and we will make them pay or not.

Kind of surprised to see them getting out of the security business, or they could just be waiting until some government calls them into service.

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Yeah. Dictatorial governments always need thugs who will do anything for money. And you'll always find this type of people.. that would kill their neighboor for money.

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Of course Eric Prince would say something like that, that's because from the Government perspective, he is right. It's a process of keeping the perpetual motion of war, through outsourcing military to a "private organization" in order to have plausible deniability that Government has less to do with war than it actually does.

Mercenary organizations, or "private militaries", you pick the word to use there, have less restrictions and more effectiveness due to not being under the same chain of command as the regular Army as well as other military units.

Iraq was a staging ground for Iran, Iran is a staging ground for China or North Korea, and Blackwater is only a cog within the machine, they are a different vein of the same process however, in that they are "civilians" not military specifically.

[edit on 23-7-2008 by SpartanKingLeonidas]