Slate Politics – Spoken Edition

No More Private Wars


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In the latest plot twist in America’s longest war, Blackwater founder and informal Trump adviser Erik Prince is hocking a plan to privatize our military expedition in Afghanistan. The proposal comes, ironically, just days after a federal appeals court threw out much of the government’s case against five former Blackwater security guards who killed 17 Iraqis during a 2007 gun battle in Baghdad. Together, these two vignettes illustrate the extent to which the U.S.
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