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Blackwater ： 世界的上升？s多数强有力的佣工军队
星期天， 2007年8月19日
Blackwater是完成卑鄙的勾当为美国以各种各样的战争，掩蔽物的一家私人公司，并且我们太很好知道所有的那些。 它在北卡罗来纳伟大的忧郁沼泽只开始了10年前作为有点儿快乐的paintball和靶场，但它那些日子有大约20,000名佣工在它的书(？战争的妓女？)不精确地提及整体束类似军事航空器，一个军事基地、许多和许多与适当的人的枪和连接。 它被带领了进入存在由Erik ·王子，从单一地不像，富有污浊的密执安朝代称赞的一位有些正确中心天主教狂热者。 王子有白宫的耳朵，并且他的企业奖励了以大量非凡赚钱为安全工作没有出了价合同，例如，伊拉克？ 在哪里Blackwater ？s多数突出的任务是照看白痴和狂热L保罗Bremer III在他的期间期间当美国管理员在战争之后。 不幸地，您也许感觉，他们鉴于此宁可很好做了他们的工作，并且Bremer生存了他的任期。 在别处，然而， Blackwater是显眼地灾难的; 它是，在单一地轻率出击期间unquelled Fallujah的四它的人，发现他们自己被伏击，扫射和被乱砍对位以最野狩般的方式被被激起的本机。 他们的被肢解的身体在电缆之上在一座桥梁被投掷了在城市？ 并且他们的谋杀带来了愤怒和致命的报复从美国军事，再次帮助由更多Blackwater雇员。 杰里米Scahill，一些声望的新闻工作者，不是相当肯定的，如果他应该由于责备Blackwater无能和疏忽在派遣这些人到什么是几乎某一死亡，或者为演奏更加黑暗的赛和(在cahoots以布什政权)有效设计美国没有选择的暴行，但反应以最严密的方式。 这是根据症状的一个周期性问题在这否则缜密被研究的和引人入胜的书中： 我们是在没有疑义至于作者来自，政治上的地方，并且他的peacenik性格有时变形他的评断。 Given the chance, Scahill would blame Bush and Blackwater for every conceivable crime, all the time (for both gross incompetence and the most astonishing Machiavellian cunning, for example), when a less partial observer might suspect such qualities to be mutually exclusive. Also, and I write as someone who thought the war and occupation of Iraq woefully misguided and criminal, Scahill seems to have much more sympathy for the vicious and medieval Islamists of Fallujah who wish to murder every American on sight than he does for his own people, who want to kill Iraqis only when they themselves are under attack. Typical of the tenor of this book is the author?s pious opprobrium when a Blackwater soldier, alone under fire on three sides from 1,200 heavily armed and enraged Iraqis, dares issue the unfortunate exclamation ?nigger!?. This undoubted contravention of etiquette merits a couple of pages of concentrated hand-wringing. Appalling though it might seem to Scahill, Blackwater?s mercenary soldiers do not always behave in the manner of Polly Toynbee. They instead comprise macho retired US grunts, former Pinochet guardsmen, pensioned-off members of the Israeli Defence Force, white South African soldiers, cheap-as-chips Colombians and so on. The armed mercenary business is of a distinctly rightish political hue, I think it?s fair to say ? and Scahill spends far too long belabouring the point. Some Blackwater executive doesn?t have much time for homosexuals or abortionists ? no, you?re kidding? There are bigger issues here and Scahill, good journalist that he is, does eventually get on to them. First and foremost is Blackwater?s apparently cavalier attitude towards its employees and its utter lack of accountability. Scahill also does a fine job tying the firm, financially and politically, to the current Bush administration ? despite Prince?s considered view that George W is a lily-livered liberal, all too soft on queers and commies. The contracts roll in, usually without competition, and Blackwater cleans up, bending the rules of engagement by occasionally using what is euphemistically described as ?unapproved ammunition?, its euphemistically named contractors swanning around Baghdad and Fallujah armed to the teeth, wearing wraparound mirror shades, driving expensive SUVs. Clearly, though, they love their work for the excitement, comparatively high wages and other sundry spin-offs: ?The chicks dig it,? one cheerful Neanderthal mercenary proclaims of his high-risk, highly paid work. Scahill also discovers Blackwater ?contractors? setting up bases in former Russian secret-service headquarters in Georgia and Azerbaijan, their guns pointed in two directions: towards Russia, towards Iran. Ready for the next conflagration. There?s some evidence in the book that the firm was also involved in the ?renditioning? of prisoners, transporting suspects for interrogation to countries with an imperfect grasp of what is meant by human rights. Blackwater operates in a deliberately hazy area, a private company beholden to the state for its work, yet free from those legal and moral responsibilities imposed upon the state, nationally and internationally. Scahill reports that the same mirror shades, big guns and SUVs were seen tearing around New Orleans in the wake of hurricane Katrina, the contractors charged with the task of keeping order and ?confronting criminals?. If so, it is a scary development. You might hope that when the current US administration bites the dust, Blackwater might do so, too. But that would be a bit naive. The relationship between mercenary and government is now far too convenient and lucrative to be abandoned. Have Your Say: Blackwater: The Rise of the World?s Most Powerful Mercenary Army Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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