Military Abuse, Cover-Up and Why Private Guards ARE Necessary

I was reading the other day about the private security firm Blackwater (http://www.blackwaterusa.com/securityconsulting/) based in rural North Carolina. This private security firm has been assigned to guard key U.S. government personnel, say the State Department, while travelling in Iraq. These guards are professional. Many of these guards come from the elite echelons of the U.S. military (former Navy SEALS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy_SEAL), and to be frank, are generally much more adept at providing safety to our Governmental Leadership.

Sadly, in contrast to the highly professional and lethally effective Blackwater is much of the 'regular military.' In article after article that I read, from Congress to Army personnel, the highly effective Blackwater (again mostly former elite U.S. military personnel) is actually being attacked by those of lesser caliber.

They are being called 'overly lethal' and that they 'drive recklessly' in Iraq. Yet in spite of such covetous critique by lesser skilled military leaders, Blackwater, whether the military likes it or not, is a more effective solution to our National Defense needs.

This is not to be anti-military in any way, but just rather to state the obvious. If you are in War (for example Iraq or Afghanistan), the entire point is to lessen casualties, both through having such a superior fighting technology and such a more highly effective person using such technology that War is not even an option.

So, rather than continuing to critique the best and the brightest, U.S.A., how about the least effective be shown the door! If a Colonel or a General is ineffective, then politely show him or her the door to retirement and hire some young Green Beret or Navy Seal to run the show. Enough Army Reserve Public School Teachers trying to lead convoys past road-side bombs in Iraq!

Hire Blackwater OR gut the military of useless personnel such as JAG officers with too much time on their hands, band members who play the tuba at West Point football games and radar operators when Blackwater is using far superior technology.

Love in Jesus,
Rob J. King, for a safer, more secure United States of America