Privateers were basically bounty hunters. Historically, countries would issue letters of marque and reprisal against pirates and enemy ships with payout going to whoever brought in the cargo. Indeed, Ron Paul proposed something like this after the 9/11 attacks. I suspect there would have been a lot less collateral damage. Even if we had put bounties of billions on the heads of Osama bin Laden and his henchmen, we likely could have gotten a similar result at a much lower cost than the trillions we have spent on war since 9/11/01. Might The Mandalorian at least get us thinking about whether or not there are better ways to do this? Better ways to enforce the law? Better ways to deal with people who do terrible, horrible things? At the very least, might we get similar outcomes for a lower price?
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The series has me thinking about private security, particularly as we get ever closer to the twentieth anniversary of the Septemattacks and as we get to the point where more and more soldiers who go to Afghanistan will be going to fight a war that started before they were born.
For the uninitiated, the series is about a bounty hunter, a Mandalorian, who is just known as “Mando” and who makes his living by scooping up bail jumpers and other prizes.
Hence, I loved the first season of The Mandalorian, the new series on the streaming service Disney+. I’m a giant Star Wars geek, and I tend to be very forgiving.