Viceroy Prince
Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2017 12:06 pm
What could possibly go wrong? And it's not as if private contractors over-charge or anything.
Maybe Prince's sister could become the Viceroy of Education for Afghanistan!
Maybe Prince's sister could become the Viceroy of Education for Afghanistan!
The White House is considering an unprecedented plan to privatize the war in Afghanistan at the urging of Erik Prince, founder of the now-defunct private mercenary firm Blackwater. Prince told USA Today the plan would include sending 5,500 private mercenaries to Afghanistan to advise the Afghan army. It would also include deploying a private air force—with at least 90 aircraft—to carry out the bombing campaign against Taliban insurgents......
AMY GOODMAN: I want to turn to Erik Prince, so people can hear this, a very interesting discussion earlier this week that the former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince had with CNN’s Erin Burnett, talking about his plans, the proposal that he put forward to President Trump for Afghanistan.
ERIK PRINCE: You have to put someone in charge. There has to be a lead federal official, or, in this case, almost a bankruptcy trustee, that rationalizes the U.S. presence, that is in charge of all policy. Second, they have to stay there for a while, so you have that continuity of decision-making.
ERIN BURNETT: OK, so the word you used for that person was "viceroy," was an American viceroy.
ERIK PRINCE: And I mean viceroy. That’s a colonial term. The last thing we—
ERIN BURNETT: It is a colonial term.
https://www.democracynow.org/2017/8/9/a ... nder_trump
