Isaq – Islamic Blog

“This is a war where traditional military jobs, from mess hall cooks to base guards and convoy drivers, have increasingly been shifted to the private sector. Many American generals and diplomats have private contractors for their personal bodyguards. And along with the risks have come the consequences: More civilian contractors working for American companies than American soldiers died in Afghanistan last year for the first time during the war. ” – New York Times

We keep hearing from the press, this amount of soldiers perished, and this is the total death for this month, and this year, and this decade, but what we do not hear is the number of Afghans that were killed in this war, and the number of people whose homes have been destroyed, and the number of people that were displaced, and the number of people who were forced to flee their homes.

Private companies are increasingly hired by the U.S Army for a good reason: private companies are more efficient than the government. What does this mean? The most powerful army in the world lags behind private corporations. The American army is in shambles, it is a weak, inefficient fighting force, with soldiers lacking in intelligence and ingenuity.

America simply has not faced a formidable foe in recent years. It has been fighting the ill-equipped mujaheddin of Afghanistan, and thus far it has been fighting a losing battle.