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To: zonder who wrote (1976)	7/8/2005 12:42:02 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2534

I am not aware of any corporations financing rebels and staging coups d'etat in exchange for a share in those countries' future GDPs in the real world. Not yet, anyway :-) There are companies that offer security services and military training on a for-profit basis to governments and large institutions, but I'm quite sure none of them operate under the specific economic terms described above. But where the concept itself is under examination - which is to say, in considering a tectonic shift in military training and operations sliding from a publically-funded to a private sector basis - I heartily encourage, and indeed look forward, to such a development. Under that state of affairs - and assuming that such has occurred with a simultaneous withdrawal of governments from such activities - war and terror ('terrorism') will likely take upon itself a new and utterly personal face. Wouldn't it be grand if some offended country, religious sect or tribe could direct their angst (or revenge) at an immediately responsible 'XYZ Corp' as opposed to the present state of affairs where civilians on trains and buses and in office buildings pay the price for what their governments do? And wouldn't 'XYZ Corp' - either expecting such, or after one or two such episodes - have trouble finding employees, and/or work hard not to step on toes, as such? e