Ron Paul gets a fair bit of love from the left for his supposedly coherent disagreement with the foreign policy of the Bush era. It’s always important to step back and note that, as a classical libertarian, Ron Paul may be coherent, but that doesn’t always equate to sane. At an event in Iowa yesterday, Paul not only called for the abolition of the Federal Reserve and the Department of Education. He also endorsed the concept of a mercenary Army.
Paul proposed allowing the federal government to, in effect, hire a private entity to deal with certain enemies. He said that was the way early presidents dealt with pirates, who were attacking ships but did not belong to any country.
“This suggests what is going on right now,” he said. The proposal “gives private sources the authority to go and do the job. They get rewarded for it,” he said.
Sadly, Paul doesn’t seem to realize that outsourcing military activities to private entities is precisely what is underway in Iraq. We have more contractors than troops in that country right now, despite the fact that troop strength is at an all-time high. We have squandered tens of billions of dollars in faulty contracts, with the waste, fraud and abuse just piling up. American taxpayers are already paying for an unaccountable group of private security teams, private reconstruction teams, and private weapons system maintenance teams, all of whom exist in a legal netherworld, not subject to military law, but by virtue of being part of the military effort, not subject to Iraq law either. This has crippled our standing with the Iraqis, and this is precisely the vision for the future that Paul lays out.
By the way, here’s what can happen when you have an Army accountable only to profit:
But critics worry that troops and their missions could be jeopardized if contractors, functioning outside the military’s command and control, refuse to make deliveries of vital supplies under fire.
At one point in 2004, for example, U.S. forces were put on food rations when drivers balked at taking supplies into a combat zone.
It wasn’t cost-effective either to drive into combat, I gather.
Paul is wedded to the idea of privatization as a universal good. If nothing else, the Bush years have shattered that notion. But on this issue, Paul is a loyal Bushie.
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August 8, 2007 at 12:15am