Book on Blackwater looks interesting
An interesting looking new book out on Blackwater, the creepy fundi-started mercenary outfit that is deployed everywhere from the streets of New Orleans to Iraq. Cory writes over at BoingBoing: “Jeremy Scahill’s brave and outraged “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army” renders the story of the Blackwater mercenary group, and other mercenary groups that have seized the economic opportunities opened by the Bush regime’s willingness to offer no-bid contracts and no-liability opportunities to fight America’s wars. Backwater — founded by ultra-right-wing Christian conservatives — hires Pinochet-era Chilean war-criminals, ex-law-enforcement types and former military, and others to serve in Iraq, Afghanistan — and in America. They can and do murder civilians with impunity, they line their pockets with cost-plus multi-billion-dollar military expenditures, and they kill their own men — and the American soldiers they are supposed to be helping — through corner-cutting profiteering.” — Link
I have no emotional obligations to the practices of an ancestral religion and even less to the small, militarist, politically aggressive nation-state which asks for my solidarity on racial grounds.
