Koppel: US Should Consider A ""Mercenary Army"..."Paid For Directly By The Corporations That Would Most Benefit"...

Editor & Publisher May 22, 2006 at 09:31 AM
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Little known to the American public, there are some 50,000 private contractors in Iraq, providing support for the U.S. military, amongs other activities. So why not go all the way, argues Ted Koppel in a New York Times op-ed on Monday, and form a real "mercenary army"?

Such a move involving what he calls "latter-day Hessians" would represent, he writes, "the inevitable response of a market economy to a host of seemingly intractable public policy and security problems."

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