Erik Prince Quotes
Bad things usually don't happen by themselves in Iraq.
Prince, Erik. "Hearing on Blackwater USA." Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2 Oct. 2007.
His view was that the regime change of ousting Saddam in the Iraq War just exposed the intrinsic ethnic, religious and political problems of Iraq.
the modern believe is that democracies are not prone to war, especially against other democracies. Seward, and some others believe that democracies can be pushed into war by politicians you do so for partisan political advantage. Politicians often have to show how tough they are.
Erik Dean Prince is an American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL officer, and the founder of the private military company Blackwater USA, now called Academi. He served as Blackwater's CEO until 2009, and as its chairman, until its sale to a group of investors in 2010. Prince heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group, and served as chairman of the Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group until 2021.