> Subject: interesting
>
>
> AMMAN [MENL] -- A leading U.S. security firm has offered to provide
> forces for any counter-insurgency mission around the world.
>
> J. Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA told the Special
> Operations Forces Exhibition, of Sofex-2006, conference, that his
> company could supply private soldiers to any country. Black, a former
> U.S. State Department counter-terrorism coordinator, said Blackwater
> has been marketing the concept of private armies for low-intensity
> conflicts.
I think this is a hopeful sign that free enterprise may
not be entirely stifled in the U.S.A. Regulations
restraining trade, e.g., selling troops to "axis of
evil" nations, impact entrepreneurial freedom (not just
the freedom to make money, but the freedom --
or at lesat the motivation -- to innovate, etc.).
Social planning is insidious: you start with something
seemingly innocuous like preventing individuals
from competing to provide soldiers to so-called "rogue states"
on the open market, and you end up with
socialism, or at least the kind of stagflation-producing regulationism
the U.S. had in the pre-Reagan era.
"Just do it!"
\brad mccormick
>
> "About a year ago, we realized we could do it," Black said.
>
> Blackwater has been a leading private security firm in Iraq. The
> company provides thousands of foreign and Iraqi personnel for
> government and private security missions.
>
> http://www.blackwaterusa.com/
>
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