Like them or hate them, we still need private security contractors says Colonel Mark Cancian (USMCR Ret.) at FP's Passport.
In criticizing the use of contractors in Iraq, some observers cite Blackwater as the tip of the contractor iceberg. It's a fair analogy, but it deserves to be taken a step further. As with an iceberg, you may be able to shave some off the tip, but hacking away at the body is pointless...