Reply #30: With private contractors

[Ezlivin]

It's easy to think that our current leadership is merely incompetent, what with letting the military get ground down in Iraq. Despite repeated warnings this government seems content to let our military degrade.

Why? The answer is easy if you look at who would benefit. Companies like Blackwater would gladly step up to take the place of our military. With billions in lucrative government contracts already in hand and billions more to come, why wouldn't they jump at the chance to incarcerate Americans in the detention camps built by KBR?

You need look no further than the ceaseless expansion of privately run prisons and the concomitant rise in arrests to see the trajectory on which this country is headed.