According to a report in the New York Times, some of President Trump’s top advisers are looking into hiring private security contractors to devise an alternative to the Pentagon’s plan for US operations in Afghanistan. Generally speaking, do you support or oppose the US government using private contractors instead of American troops for military operations?

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