To protect the civilians in a country that is still home to insurgents with Al Qaeda and Iranian-backed militias, the State Department is planning to more than double its private security guards, up to as many as 7,000, according to administration officials who disclosed new details of the plan. Defending five fortified compounds across the country, the security contractors would operate radars to warn of enemy rocket attacks, search for roadside bombs, fly reconnaissance drones and even staff quick reaction forces to aid civilians in distress, the officials said.In a way, we're pretty lucky in New Orleans. Our post-disaster laboratory experiment has mostly focused on perfecting the practice of turning our children's education over to private management. In Iraq they're working on privately operated armies. Not that we didn't get a taste of that too for a while. But, just think, next time they send in a private army to pacify an American population, it'll really know what it's doing.
Meanwhile, the best summary of the Iraq (sort of) pullout comes from The Onion
Obama also noted that during the war more Iraqi insurgents died than American troops, which, he admitted, isn't necessarily the best way to determine a war's victor, but is nonetheless still preferable to the other way around.
"By the end of this month, victory, to a certain extent, will be ours, and we can finally welcome our troops back home," Obama concluded. "That is unless they are one of the 50,000 U.S. soldiers who will have to stay in the region for the foreseeable future."
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