Erik Prince Goes on Fox & Friends to Appeal to Trump to Privatize Afghanistan War

by Colby Hall | Aug 21st, 2018, 8:09 am

A fairly well-known tactic in today’s political world is this: if you want to get President Donald Trump’s attention, there is no more effective way than to go on Fox & Friends (his favorite television show) and make a public appeal for a policy change.

Such was the case when Blackwater founder Erik Prince appeared on the right-of-center morning show to argue for the privatization of the Afghanistan War. Prince argued that the US Military efforts in Afghanistan have, at best, become static. And it is true that American military forces have been ensconced in something of a stalemate for 17 years since invading shortly after the attacks after 9/11.

Prince argues in this segment that the US military efforts are NOT winning the war, or in his words, US military efforts are a “continuous litany of death and failure”, “worst than a stalemate,” and criticized US airpower does not show up reliably. Oddly, host Brian Kilmeade did not criticize his guest for critical comments towards our men and women in uniform.

Prince made a specific appeal to the White House saying “President Trump should appoint a special envoy” someone “that the president can hold in charge, give them the title 50 authorities like when we went in after 9/11.” One can only imagine who Prince has in mind for that role.

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