Mercenaries, not US troops, will save Afghanistan

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Mercenaries, not US troops, will save Afghanistan.

Quincy Quarry’s media comrades in arms DuffleBlog.com, the American military’s most-trusted news source, has reported on former Blackwater CEO as well as its founder Erik Prince is publicly calling for the Trump administration to turn around the Afghan war by using private contractors at relatively low cost, sources confirmed today.

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In what one can only view as a call by a former mercenary and perhaps still one to rely on mercenaries per a guest Opinion piece in the New York Times, it is only reasonable to view this proposal as one of the largest workforce outsourcing of US military operations as the primary means of addressing the now just days short of sixteen years of ongoing conflict in Afghanistan involving the United States on the cheap.

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While Eric Prince does have at least indirect ties to President Trump and is reportedly under investigation by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) over Prince’s suspected representing himself as an unofficial representation of President Trump, neither the FBI would offer comment about its apparently still ongoing investigation nor has the White House offered any comment whatsoever about Mr. Prince, much less his call for relying on mercenaries taking over the United State and its allies’ military mission in Afghanistan.