Defense Contractor: “Afghanistan is our business plan.”

[kpete]

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An executive at a small defense contractor recently joked to me, “Afghanistan is our business plan.” I asked him what he would do if the war ended. He stared at me for a moment and said, “Well, then I hope we invade Libya.”

This executive wasn’t actually hoping to occupy Tripoli. But he was expressing a worry many in the defense industry have about how they will run their companies and employ their workers once the wars are over. Ten years of war have established a discrete class of entrepreneurs, mid-level workers and administrators who are completely reliant upon the U.S. being at war to stay employed.

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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/voices/the-looming-afghan-crash/9365/

[yourout]

1. Guess they will have to get off the Government Teat.

[LetTimmySmoke]

2. Previous great powers that became addicted to war have not met a good end.

[polly7]

3. Suffering, death and destruction for paychecks and profit.

It's a sick thing. Can't wait for it to end.

[Dawson Leery]

4. War is fought for profit.

Nothing new here.

[DJ13]

5. Welfare cheats, thats all they are

[yourout]

6. New term.....Warfare Queens.

[Ed Suspicious]

8. I LOVE that! Keeper. n/t

[JawJaw]

13. Brilliant, yourout! n/t

[Zorra]

7. "Warfare Queens"?

[yourout]

9. Have you ever heard the derogitory term....Wellfare Queens"?

[Zorra]

14. Yeah. You got it. nt

[Canuckistanian]

10. Death for profit

They don't care whose death. Just as long as it's expensive, takes the maximum of hardware and is constant.

What do they care of the people of Afghanistan, Libya, Iraq or Syria? It's all profit. All neatly itemized by the bean counters and projected into future earnings.

No surprises like "peace" or anything.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. K & R

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. In the fiction I am working on they are so damn dependent

they are working with their enemies to keep the war going.

Yes extrapolated real conditions.