Slavery -- can't live without it!

The Chicago Tribune provides an update on how things are going on the slavery front. For the last three years -- that's right, THREE YEARS! -- the Pentagon has been kicking around how to implement President Bush's order that US military contractors not use slaves. And its just so very, very difficult. As one lawyer for the contractors intones "We don't want to do anything that conveys the idea that we are sanctioning or tolerating trafficking". But, of course, they don't want the Pentagon to actually pass or enforce any rules against it either. After all, how could the military contractors function without being able to use women for sex slaves, and men as labour slaves?