Okay
First
I have no agenda. As I stated before I have just read a few things about blackwater. I am intrested, there seems to be positive and negative things about it.
I am not trying to be a troll.
My view is that from a money standpoint blackwater costs a lot, but this is not there fault really, the US government awards contracts to companies in Iraq, if they did not accept someone else would.
That being said if you are a trained special forces it is easy to see why blackwater would be a better move as you can make something like x3 more.
And this is clearly going to reduce the ranks of highly trained people in American forces.
On the other side they are doing a job that not a lot of people wish to do and a job that needs to get done. From PR standpoint the dead contract security do not get listed on the death toll.
This issue has been around for a long time, the Peloponnesian War being a great example.
In conclusion my view is that it would be better if the US did not need to use security contractors but as they did not plan for the occupation or train their troops to do the job they asked of them they need private security.
So it seems to me to be bad but necassarcy.
FL