Faced with opposition, Erik Prince shops his plan for Afghanistan

Erik Prince isn’t giving up.

A year after the Trump administration rejected the Blackwater founder’s plan to replace most U.S. troops in Afghanistan with private contractors — an idea roundly criticized by the defense and foreign policy establishment — he’s back trying to sell his plan to President Trump.

He hasn’t talked to Trump about the idea recently, he admits. But he’s been making the rounds in the media, including an appearance on Trump’s favorite television show, “Fox & Friends,” talking up his plan as a way to end the stagnation of the 17-year-old war.

“The president was right to campaign against endless wars,” Prince said in a recent telephone interview with The Hill. “Before we go headlong into another year of the same failed strategy, I think it’s important for the president to know that there are different options.”

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What a sleaze ball.