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2017-08-03 Afghanistan

The Historic Implications Of Erik Prince's Plan For Afghanistan

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 Turning Afghanistan into CIA's private kingdom?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 00:40|| 2017-08-03 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 No, keep the CIA out of this if the plan is to have any chance of success!

CIA has a horrible record when it comes to managing large scale operations.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-03 00:57|| 2017-08-03 00:57|| Front Page Top

#3 And why shouldn't all of that graft money come back home? Prob introduce good crop management practices to increase the opium yield as well.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-08-03 01:07|| 2017-08-03 01:07|| Front Page Top

#4 Seeking, who do you think is going to veto condottieres (contractor in Italian) for USG?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 01:08|| 2017-08-03 01:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Good question G(r)omgoru, If the CIA gets involved, we might as well write the whole thing off as a lost cause. What Skidmark said is more likely to happen then.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-08-03 01:14|| 2017-08-03 01:14|| Front Page Top

#6 we might as well write the whole thing off as a lost cause

might ---> should

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 01:16|| 2017-08-03 01:16|| Front Page Top

#7 I have been watching this and him for - forever.

There are others that watch too who are on the ground.

Here is the markup from june where relook at Afghanistan all came from. Here is Baba Tim with an outline of the situation:
http://freerangeinternational.com/blog/?p=6954

Here is Erik Prince's article in WSJ https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-macarthur-model-for-afghanistan-1496269058?mod=e2tw

An finally, presenting a probabable Viceroy
http://freerangeinternational.com/blog/?p=7071

Right now, with me, it is a GO.

Anyone have better ideas how to tame the scorpion?

Posted by newc 2017-08-03 02:11|| 2017-08-03 02:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Anyone have better ideas how to tame the scorpion?

Bomb the opium fields with incendiaries.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-08-03 03:01|| 2017-08-03 03:01|| Front Page Top

#9 The drug trade becomes off limits when you are pushing upward in a waterfall. You cannot tell a farmer to stop that. You are not here to police their economics as far as non-humans are concerned.

Served better by knowing where those drugs are going (Iran, Russia...) than to cut off the farmers crop.

This is a banking and Intelligence game. And the DOD is woefully prepared to handle it with their MET - as far retarded it is for this region.

If you follow the monies, you have less overhead in munitions.

I have all their balance sheets. Figure that out for real and then act like you are going after IRGC.

House of Saud's influence may help or change the dynamic of this but as far as today - anything is up for grabs.

We shall see.

Posted by newc 2017-08-03 03:14|| 2017-08-03 03:14|| Front Page Top

#10 The entire ME isn't worth a tin pale of warm camel pi**. Get out, stay out, and let them fight it out among themselves. Put all their evil, death cult who come near us to the sword or we too will perish.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-08-03 04:40|| 2017-08-03 04:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Until you take out Pakistan, you'll never remove a base of operation for the OPFOR.

The drug trade becomes off limits when you are pushing upward in a waterfall. You cannot tell a farmer to stop that. You are not here to police their economics as far as non-humans are concerned.

Given the American capacity to genetically engineer, a opium 'blast' should have already been developed and prepared for dispersal. It's not like its a food supply.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-08-03 09:36|| 2017-08-03 09:36|| Front Page Top

#12 DynaCorp? DynaCorp has been mentioned in WikiLeaks. Something about DynaCorp and dancing boys in Afghanistan. DynaCorp. No wonder, they decided to look at the Prince plan instead of DynaCorp plan, a Hillary leftover.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-08-03 10:26|| 2017-08-03 10:26|| Front Page Top

#13 Have bad, bad paper on DynaCorp from Africa. The Congos, etc.

I have less faith in them, but they could augment.

Posted by newc 2017-08-03 13:04|| 2017-08-03 13:04|| Front Page Top

#14 Sounds like a good idea to me. One hitch I see up front:

MacArthur was made SCAP after Japan surrendered. One might think a MacArthur in Afghanistan would have to follow after an unconditional surrender there by ... whom? ... perhaps ... ?

I don't know. Maybe the parallel is not applicable.

Posted by TopRev 2017-08-03 16:02|| 2017-08-03 16:02|| Front Page Top

#15 Reaching for MacArthur as a model is sure to set the cat among the left's pigeons. They hate the guy more than anyone else they know.

And who does Prince have in mind as the MacArthur for Afghanistan? Himself? MacArthur was a very great man, very unique. Prince must have someone in mind.

Posted by TopRev 2017-08-03 16:05|| 2017-08-03 16:05|| Front Page Top

#16 Dynacorp was allegedly involved in the sexual exploitation of children in Bosnia in the 90's during peacekeeping operations. It was the subject of the 2010 film The Whistleblower - though nobody was ever convicted of a crime.

Posted by Secret Master 2017-08-03 17:39|| 2017-08-03 17:39|| Front Page Top

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