Russia is basically Italy with nuclear weapons.
Entrepreneurship made America great.
We need to privatize whenever possible.
I put myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions. But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus.
I've been overtly and covertly serving America since I started in the armed services.
I'm painted as this war profiteer by Congress. Meanwhile I'm paying for all sorts of intelligence activities to support American national security, out of my own pocket.
I am a businessman, not a politician, but I am also a proud American who would never do anything against my country's national interest.
There are some phone calls where it's not even worth wasting the electrons on.
If someone is doing that, saving the customer money, is making a profit so bad?
I'm a very free market guy.
We have a great all-volunteer force, but the fact is that 0.5% of the U.S. population serves in the military, maybe another 3-5% knows someone who serves. Leaving 95% of Ameria with no real contact with the military.
We have the finest officers in the world, but it seems like once they become generals it is a self-licking ice cream cone of who gets promoted and who gets approved to join that club. No one thinks outside the box.
President Trump should appoint a special presidential envoy and empower them to wage an unconventional war against Taliban and Daesh forces, to hold the corrupt officials accountable and to negotiate with their Afghan counterparts and the Afghan Taliban that are willing to reconcile with Kabul.
We have no George Pattons anymore. We have no Ulysses S. Grants. We have none of the swashbuckling generals that actually made things happen.
The people we helped in the field, they know what the legacy is. The 40% or so of Americans that really can't stand the name of Blackwater, that's fine, I'll never really win them over anyway. And I really don't care.
Any systems can always be made better.
We have done great work for the U.S. government.
For people to mischaracterize my time or ownership of Blackwater as being some great financial bonanza, it was not. It was most definitely not.
I'm a strong supporter of the military.
I'm a business guy just trying to make - provide great services to the customers that need us.
