ARTICLE: “Pentagon Sees One Authority Over Guards: State Dept. Resists Idea for Security in Iraq,” by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker, New York Times, 17 October 2007, p. A1.
An entity who lives primarily in the seam between war and peace. Its presence serves one department (State) but vexes the other (Defense). Both sides see the need for central control and regulation, but neither trusts the other side on that score.
Where have you heard this before?
This is why I call for a Department of Everything Else to fill that gap.
Frontier age, frontier players. Blackwater is the Pinkertons of this era. It will not kow-tow easily to Defense and it’s too much for State to handle.
How about we get serious about this middle ground by creating a middle agency?
Giuliani wants one. Why? He sees the need and doesn’t want to get left holding that loser’s bag if he gets elected president and the balloon inevitably goes up on the next Iraq.
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