Solving the Security Contractor Problem.

Blackwater security company has been the subject of a couple of my blogs here and I thought it was time I further elaborated on what I think we can do to solve this problem. What I will be proposing is an expulsion of all defense contractors from the middle east and a temporary rise in troops. The general idea is that we handle all of the work that Blackwater and other security contractors were doing, while at the same time training Afghanistan citizens in security so that they can eventually take over and our troops can go home.

According to this blog the average Blackwater employee is paid $445,891 every year. That is quite a lot of money. Money that could very easily be paid to new troops that we can send over to replace these guys. Even if the troops end up being more expensive to employee than the contractors, there is also less chance that they will damage our reputation. That is also money we can spend on training the locals to do their own security. Eventually we will have to pull out of the middle east completely and unless we have sufficiently trained the Afghanistan people how to defend themselves, they will fall to the first warlord who sets his sights on the country. Not only that, but training the Afghans would also help cover the work that Blackwater used to do.

So my point is, we pay these defense contractors a whole lot of money but they don't do the all the jobs that are asked of them. Therefore I think it would be wise to fire them and do what we need to do to secure the freedom and trust of the Afghanistan people.