An Industry is Born

Here's a provocative fact:

The [Los Angeles] Times reports that there are 160,000 troops in Iraq and 180,000 US contractor employees.

followed by a trenchant observation (in the form of a rhetorical question):

In the longer term, where does this new "war service industry" go when we get out of Iraq?

For more, see Dina Rasor's "It's Official; the War Service Industry is the Majority in Iraq", The Huffington Post, 6 July 2007.

Posted on July 7, 2007 at 18.38 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Briefly Noted

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Sunday, 8 July 2007 at 02.27
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    How are we going to keep them down on the farm after they've seen Baghdad? Or, more up to date, how will they settle for jobs at Wal Mart, Jiffy Lube and McDonald's after they've gotten used to making the big bucks?

    Actually, the way things are going, there will probably be strong and growing demand for security services in the U.S. and around the world.

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