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Erik Prince, founder of BlackwaterAndrew Harre鈥擝loomberg/Getty ImagesBy Mark ThompsonOctober 10, 2014 11:54 AM EDTThe man who founded and ran Blackwatermdash;the company that sent thousands of private workers into Afghanistan and Iraqmdash ays President Barack Obama should hire a mercenary corps to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria.The American people are clearly war-fatigued,r stanley cups dquo; writes Erik Prince, now the chairman of Frontier Services Group, a company that provides logistical support for much of Africa. If the Administration cannot rally the political nerve or funding to send adequate active duty ground forces to answer the call, let the private sector finish the job.Some Americans might be willing to write private fighters a check Prince himself has reportedly been linked to developing a mercenary force for the United Arab Emirates . But Blackwatermdash;which earned more than $ stanley cup 1 billion in Iraqmdash hows the dangers inherent with subcontracting out war. Its guards killed 17 civilians in Baghdad in 2007; a jury continues to deliberate the fate of four ex-employees implicated in the shooting.One of its top officials in the Iraqi capital allegedly threatened to stanley cup kill a State Department employee who had questions about its contracts with the U.S. government. And U.S. military officers routinely grumbled about the lack of unity of command that Blackwaterrsquo presence in Iraq created. But that wouldnrsquo;t be a p Dexh GM Announces Another Major Recall Before Testimony
Matt McClain鈥擳he Washington Post/Getty ImagesBy Molly Ball/Mishawaka, Ind.September 13, 2018 7:59 AM EDTAt 93, Jimmy Carter gait is a little stiff, his back a bit stooped. He doesn ;t swing a hammer like he once did, preferring to work a table saw. But one week each year, the 39th President of the United States and his wife still travel somewhere in the world to build homes with their own hands for Habitat for Humanity, the global housing charity. And so, on a Thursday in late August, the Carters were on a job site in Mishawaka, Ind., wearing blue hard hats and measuring out lengths of wood for a new patio.Home is a powerful thing to Carter, the only modern President to return there after leaving the White House. The couple still lives in the two-bedroom ranch house in Plains, Ga., that they built in 1961, and their everyday lives bear little resemblance to the jet-setting and buck-raking of his post-presidential peers. They still cook their own meals and attend their local Baptist church, where Carter teaches Sunday school. You ;ll never find Carter giving a speech to an investment bank for hundreds of thousands of dollars.It a bright, crisp morning in this suburb of South Bend, where a formerly vacant lot is being transformed int af1 o 23 vinyl-sided houses. The one the Carters are working on will soon belong to Cleora Taylor, a 36-year-old single mother of fo adidas samba ur, who ;ll pay it off with a no-interest mortgage. We happen to crocs be Christians, and
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