Contractors Ready to Cash In On ISIS War
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/13/contractors-ready-to-cash-in-on-isis-war.html
Obama pledged that the war against ISIS wont be fought with U.S. ground troops. He didnt say anything about contractors, who see this as the next big meal ticket.
Contractors Ready to Cash In On ISIS War
09.13.14
Americas rapidly-expanding war against ISIS wont involve large numbers of U.S. troops on the ground, President Obama is promising. And its clear that airstrikes alone wont beat back the extremist group. Which means that if the President wants to have any hope of meeting his far-reaching goal of destroying ISIS, hes going to have to rely on private military contractors.
At least, thats what the contractors are hoping.
At the height of the Iraq war, these firms hired hundreds of thousands of people: guns-for-hire, IT geeks, logistics specialists, interrogators, and short order cooks to ladle out the slop at the military cafeteria. Over time, some of those contractors became the symbol for everything that was wrong with the Iraq war: hugely expensive, ineffective, and indifferent to Iraqi life. Contractors were at the middle of the wars biggest scandals, from Abu Ghraib to Nissour Square. And it was the abductions and murder of Blackwater contractors that sparked one of Iraq's biggest battles.
None of the five current and former contractors who spoke with The Daily Beast expected a replay of last decades Iraq war. But they all said a major opportunity was comingboth for them, and for Obama, who could use the private armies as a way to conceal just how many people will be fighting in this new conflict.