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[tertiarylife]

 contemplating writing a paper discussing the pros and cons of our government contracting private military firms ala Blackwater (which is apparently called Xe now) Blackwater is kind of scary. They have developed their own goddamned APC for Christ's sake. Praetorian Guard, anyone? The shit of this is that this paper is intended to be as unbiased as

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[lightningtea]

Wow, yeah, that's kinda crazy that they have their own armored vehicles. PMCs are both a good and bad idea, IMO. Privatizing military means fewer taxpayer dollars going into national defense and thus more money for other government programs but, on the flipside, a de-nationalized military is far more susceptible to outside influence (a.k.a. MONEY) and could very well betray the interests of one "paying customer" in favor of another.

[tertiarylife]

Hey! I get bonus cookies on this paper if I conduct interviews on the subject. You don't have to be an expert or anything. Would you be willing to answer a couple of questions for me this weekend on this topic?