Either way you're screwed - there's no "defense" at all - The Blackwaters will get paid the big bucks from our taxes to oppress us and the military will be "fighting for our freedoms" in some foreign country that never posed a threat to us but has plenty of oil and does not do the bidding of Oilfinger.

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"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
~Thomas Jefferson

"There is Still No Such Thing As a Fair Tax"