I used to subscribe to The Nation , but eventually found its "reporting" to be wildly simplistic, dogma First, a little background on my own biases: Jan 31, Huyen rated it liked it. Initially, logistics and supply tasks were primarily to be placed in the hands of private companies so that the army could concentrate on the primary responsibility of the struggle. The amount of connections Blackwater specifically has with curious, secretive government initiatives such as the readying of military bases all along the Caspian border countries should get anyone's inner conspiracy theorist buzzing. But, even though it took forever to get through, this was definitely worth the read. To reduce cost and boost their profits, they cut down on security measures, pushing their employees into dangerous situations with inappropriate protection. 
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Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill
Yes, I read the whole book. He uses the murder of four Blackwater contractors in Fallujah as backdrop against which the book is set, returning to what happened, how it happened, and the impact on the families.
Like many other reviewers, I bought this book hoping to get a historical perspective on the Blackwater company. The US government is sending all over the globe huge companies whose sole purpose is to earn money, not to jeermy peace. The author makes the point that guns were on the ground long before humanitarian aid was deployed.
Support for privatization of military support had begun with Cheney and Rumsfeld long before their Bush the 2nd years as they reduced the military budget. Scahill's book does not provide any analysis of real value.
Jeremy Scahill is a first-rate investigative journalist, of that I have no doubt, but he also has a clear anti-Blackwater, anti-Prince sccahill agenda to sell, and he wastes not a single word selling it here. And by excluding their casualties from the official figure, the government practically tells a lie about the war. Jesus said nothing about patriotism or privatization, but these people with wonderful imagination can cook up all of these things, I always find that puzzling and fascinating.
The scandal of Blackwater
They also quote the US founding fathers whenever possible, but never that crap Washington came off with about never telling a lie — what was that guy on, anyway? This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. We know that Americans will tolerate any kind of foreign intervention if there are few to no bodies of American soldiers coming home.
Blackwater 1 3 Mar 14, I though that Scahill went too far to try to portray the company as religiously conservative, but he is correct in worrying about the ambiguous legal status of mercenary corporations.
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
This is a nightmare coming to pass. Although not as disturbing as The Shock Doctrine even when they cover the same territory this is still a confronting read. Retrieved from " https: He didn't seem to have a convincing argument against that. There is another missed opportunity in the chapter on Blackwater after Katrina - to observe that we had boots on the ground with guns on the Gulf Coast before there was humanitarian aid is disturbing, but again I would have liked more information about this and an analysis of how outsourcing is impacting our disaster relief efforts.
It in a time were lots of books we're aware of defining religion as to be a soul living as a Christian. And should have been. This page was last edited on 24 Februaryat If you want to reinforce your own Liberal bias against the US Government I wonder how that efficiency argument can hold if it is repeatedly stressed in the book that private contractors are paid 3 times as high as a US military personnel. The level of their vitriol is astonishing.
Anyway, on with the impotent rage. Because of the World It's interesting to finally read this book after sort of learning a lot of this stuff piecemeal over the last ten years. In its infinite wisdom, the administration Bremer decided to make contractors blackwaer from any prosectution for jeremmy committeed while in Iraq while performing their role under contract.
If the worst comes to worst, the ruling authorities will be protected by their hired killers, while the vast majority of the population will sink into chaos, civil war, and misery.
Jeremy Scahill: The scandal of Blackwater | Opinion | The Guardian
If you want to make a point, or favor blackwatef side in particular, you need to at least try to remain objective. And he said that if you want to be good you should follow his example and give everything you own to the poor. Only the clients know about its exact tasks and activities.
The thing is that this is war, but in another way it was also an experiment. Very informative and disturbing read.
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