Will a Mercenary company help in Darfur?
- Yes, Mercs are fine guys who love what they do, and I doubt they go about hacking innocent people to death like the rebels.
- No, it would just put more cowboys into the ok coral.
- Yes, if the teachers here quit there child care jobs and all went together we could bring peace to Darfur with our Combined English Imperialist Might.
- No, those people will never have peace until they get a Castro-like totalitarian who crushes trouble makers.
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In the above link the Civil war in Sierra Leone is discussed. The mercenary company argues that his company saved the country. According to the clip 150 men caused 18,000 nasty maiming, burning, killing, and raping rebels to retreat. Apparently the officers who took over Sierre Leone invited this Mercenary Company to come in and protect their Diamond Mines and the mercenary company went on to take control of more territory and subdue the Rebels. I am still unclear how 150 men can hold the ground and cause a force of 18,000 to backdown. :s I can only imagine they must have had air support or some really good mortarmen with sneaky forward observers. Ether that or the rebel army was use to just coming in to slaughter villagers without weapons and turned tail and ran when they met with organized fierce resistance.
Anyhow, the argument is made that even if you except the fact that this mercenary company brought stability to this country you still must decide if you feel an “imperialist” force is justified. Or at least that is the paraphrase of the Canadian Colonel. I’d say it was a good thing they went and saved the day- but I do not think things could have gotten worse since apparently [according to the clip] both the army and the rebels were Evil Thugs…
Long ago I got the library book “War Dogs” about some mercs in Siberia. In fact, I’ve read so many historical, and biographical books on war you’d think I was an Annapolis Professor instead of an Amphibious Assault Marine Corps Double Tap fellow. 
But, when I was in the Arab lands I had my boys surrounding me and knew we were just a friendly call away for some 2,000 pound biggidy bomb support. But there is no amount of money you could pay me to go Rambo Mercenary Company in Africa. Same goes for Iraq. Poor guys- some of my buddies went lifer in the Marines and now guess where they are at 
Then there is more in another part about a Mercenary company called Blackwater:
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Cofer Black (Vice Chairman at Blackwater) has said that Blackwater is ready to go to Darfur and willing to do it.
The fact that a private company today — irrespective of who it is, this happens to be Blackwater — has the ideological desire, the ability, and the manpower and the money to pull off an operation like that is very scary. I don’t know how many people are aware of that.[/color]
I don’t care how many heavy machine guns these guys have. There is noway I’d go to Darfur for any amount of money. Now in Somalia if there were Marines pinned down you had the Tanks to the rescue or Supercobras drop in some Zunni Rockets. But, to go to some African country on the ground knowing you had no reserve force / Air/Arti/ Motar support coming to help you if you came upon heavy resistance… :loco: Unless this company actually has those- which would make it more like an Italian Captain City State than a Modern Company… 
The US army is a bit overextended now- so I do not think we can spare the troops to save Darfur- but perhaps we could send the French in…? They spared their troops from Iraq. Or better yet a joint Russian and Chinese force could save Darfur. Or mmm North Korea yes that would be great- all those ideologically perfect Commandos would do well in Darfur- and Kim Jung Il’s starving of his own peoples to keep his troops well fed would be- to the smallest extent- justified- NOT. But hey, Pork Chow Mien MRE was the best. 6 dollars a MRE- thanks USA taxpayers glad you were not starved.