Blackwater Founder Resurfaces Selling Plan for Afghanistan

I'll agree that we must see a change on how we address the issues in Afghanistan but has no one learned anything from the last Call of Duty game? I mean seriously, in that game we see a private defense contractor take on a war and then turn it around to put himself in power. Sound familiar? These contractors would not be bound by the command and controls we, as a professional military, are bound to. They would be free to do as they wish in a vacuum. All the while making billions of dollars off the government.

If the country were to "sell" this war, where would it stop? Could we see the eventual closing of the Department of Defense?

I don't agree with the notion that we should privative operations on Afghanistan, but I steadfastly maintain that we have been doing more or less the same thing for nearly 16 years and have not achieved the desired result. Strategy there seems to have metastisized into retreads of the same combat operations and tired old projects that spend lives and treasure for ever-diminishing returns.
This proposal is not a good one, but it is time for innovation or we might as well pull up stakes and leave rather than hope the same approach works better next time.

There goes the neighborhood.