i recently read that blackwaters iraq contracts will not be renewed, i do not know exactly how this translates into them exiting iraq, but erik prince was heard complaining recently that he was disappointed that the state dept has not come to blackwaters defense. All this to say that without warrior contractors in iraq the u.s will have to either scale back their middle east intentions to a large degree.
The military is way over extended and the american citizen will not heartily support a draft.
one reason why this administration has been able to pull this off for as long as they have without getting the nation up in arms a la vietnam war era, has been the military contractors role in the war, without which we would have had to reinstituded a draft, which would have awakened the nation and made us all more aware as to why we are there and whether its worth sending our sons and daughters to die there for reasons ill defined.
