This New Yorker article on how we’ve staffed our military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan made my blood boil. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/06/06/110606fa_fact_stillman 

If the article is accurate, we’ve basically participated in human trafficking to staff our bases with foreign contractors, presumably because we could not trust the locals.  The article tracked women from Fiji who were promised jobs in Dubai and ended up inside the razor wire in forward operating bases in Afghanistan and Iraq serving our troops.  Some in Iraq were terminated but not given tickets back home. Many ended up living in shipping containers.  Some of these indentured servants ended up rioting when they weren’t fed. 

Let’s win those hearts and minds…