Flirting..

 

Calculations from Brown University’s Watson Institute indicated that 4,898 U.S. soldiers had perished in Iraq as of September 1, 2021.  The number of deaths among contractors was close behind at 3,650.

Washington acknowledged that 2,448 U.S. military service personnel were killed during the two-decade long intervention, compared to 3,846 contractors.  

In late 2021, an analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) noted that more contractors (nearly 8,000) had died in the various post-9-11 conflicts than had U.S. armed forces personnel. 

U.S. leaders are flirting with even more dangerous risks than they did by meddling in the affairs of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, since the presence of U.S. mercenaries in Ukraine could lead to a direct clash with Russia. Both Congress and the American people must demand much greater transparency about the role of Washington’s Hessians in all combat zones.