NYT: "The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors."

Comments

[pfknc]

Yeah - I understand Halliburton is setting up a new division with hiring bonuses for current members of our special forces.

Essentially, groups like Blackwater have converted the best of a lot of our special forces to hired and unregulated mercenaries - now we will do the same thing to protect our borders - it will cost more and we will get less.

But our army will be fleet of foot and modernized. I guess that is why it is being run into the ground by the Iraq war.

[Bubba]

More examples of "talk is cheap".

Ed, why don't you combine all these threads today into one large BDS thread, and save us all a lot of time?

[John C Godwin]

I used to trust "Texans", but now I have my doubts. Why not cut the water off to prevent more damage before figuring out how to repace the damaged goods?