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Originally Posted by Snestorm
@UnderseaLcpl
You've spent quite a-bit of time on a very well written post.
The only statement you've made that is debatable is:
"Haliburton and companies like it will eventualy merge themselves with the state".
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Who reports to whom?
Haliburton, KBR, Blackwater, etc. Mixed feelings on that. One one hand there will always be war, therefore; there will always be the requirement for contracted services. I don't think a company is evil because they target those services.
Did Blackwater cross the line? Who knows, I wasn't there. I can tell you in any combat or life threatening situation that everyone who was there, saw and heard a different version of the same events. When there is gunfire or panic, things look a lot different depending on your perspective. (When you're being shot at, everyone is an enemy.) The thing is that people have the expectation that security or police issues should be handled the same everywhere. Not going to happen in a war zone.
Back to corporate evil. There's nothing wrong with any company bidding on Government Services. If you think that there isn't any back door politics or back scratching going on in the defense industry, stop reading now, you're wasting your time, go back to looking at porn.
Bottom line is we need those companies and contractors [mercenaries] to get the job done. War sucks, then you die.