Blackwater and the Surge

Blackwater Wants to Surge its Armed Force in Afghanistan by Jeremy Scahill.  According to RebelReports, a newly released State Department audit of Blackwater praises the firm's work as the U.S. govenment weighs expanding their operations in Afghanistan.

For some reason I thought, or hoped, that the Obama Administration would put an end to the pigs at the trough.  I guess I'm wrong, again.

Private military forces are dangerous.  The absence of public debate is equally dangerous.

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people. But, independent of these inducements to war, which are more prevalent in absolute monarchies, but which well deserve our attention, there are others which affect nations as often as kings; and some of them will on examination be found to grow out of our relative situation and circumstances. 
-Federalist 4, Publius