Every now and again, a news article surfaces on the subject of war profiteering. The alleged villains range from an individual reaping dirty millions for making faulty body armor to corporations such as Halliburton, accused of providing "shoddy services to U.S. troops in the field." Where an opportunity exists to sacrifice quality for the sake of a greater profit margin, a contractor or manufacturer will sometimes seize it-and then we, as citizens of the richest andrnmost powerful of the world's nations, are shocked. To cheat in business is one thing, but to send our soldiers to war with substandard equipment surely must constitute a form of treason.
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