$5.35 an hour? Outsourcing Mercenaries in Iraq

Well, there seems to be a company out there that does it all. If your firm is in need of outsourced operators, call-centre staff, data entry operators, receptionists, and secretaries, then perhaps 3D Global Solutions is the answer for you. But don't stop there.

Things could get a bit harry for your operation if it is located, say, in Baghdad or Kabul. Fortunately this Umbrella Corp. can offer you dog handlers, weapons engineers, force protection, and stadium security protection in the event that the washed out lower classes are giving you a hard time. Sorry, no Nemesis Project or bio-engineered personnel quite yet.

In the fashion of James Bond-type super villany, 3D Global Solutions will find your inexpensive security force offshore. It seems that this up-standing corporate citizen has been recruiting from South American militaries, and paying these private secruity workers roughly $5.35 / hour -- less than a tenth what is paid to American mercinaries -- to put themselves in "the line of fire" for American and British troops in Iraq and Afghanistant. Exporting the "dirty warriors" to America's new imperialist hot-spot couldn't possibly go wrong, could it?

The price of course for these recruits could indeed be their life. Some of the men have returned with strange ailments and have even died from lukemium, probably a result of exposure to high levels of uranium.

This must be such a shock to the capitalist libertarians who point to governments as the culprits of war, genocide, and related atrocities. The market and its corporations could not possibly be responsible for such horrors. On the contrary, adventure capitalism always makes a profit off arms sales, production, and warfare. The military industrial complex must be getting rather bored with the current conflict in the Mid-East, as HUMVEES and body armour are not exactly big tickets items. Making a tidy buck off soldiering might just fill the gap.