<<The security companies, which are not US companies, are taking our money,tax payer money . . . >>
This was kind of news to me. It wasn't apparent from the source I read (The Raw Story) that the security companies were not U.S. companies, so I returned to the source and followed its link back to the original NYT story, which, sure enough, did say that the security companies were Afghan companies, often with strong family ties to powerful figures in the Afghan government. Technically, they were paid by the Afghan and American trucking companies convoying war materiel to the Afghan and NATO forces, on contract to the various militaries, so that it is not only American but other countries' taxpayer money that is flowing to the security companies through the trucking companies.
<< . . . this kind of thing isn't as uncommon in war as you might think. >>
My point was that as hard as it is to see the capitalist causes behind most of America's recent wars, this one instance is a crystal clear example of capitalist war-mongering. It is easy enough to obfuscate when governments start wars for ostensible reasons of state to mask the underlying capitalist rationale, but in cases such as this, with direct transfers of funds from the capitalists to their purported "enemies," there is no longer even the possibility of hiding the causal link.
