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Blackwater ： 世界的上升？s多數強有力的傭工軍隊
星期天， 2007年8月19日
Blackwater是完成卑鄙的勾當為美國以各種各樣的戰爭，掩蔽物的一家私人公司，并且我們太很好知道所有的那些。 它在北卡羅來納偉大的憂鬱沼澤只開始了10年前作為有點兒快樂的paintball和靶場，但它那些日子有大約20,000名傭工在它的書(？戰爭的妓女？)不精確地提及整體束類似軍事航空器，一個軍事基地、許多和許多與適當的人的槍和連接。 它被帶領了進入存在由Erik ・王子，從單一地不像，富有汙濁的密執安朝代稱讚的一位有些正確中心天主教狂熱者。 王子有白宮的耳朵，并且他的企業獎勵了以大量非凡賺錢為安全工作沒有出了價合同，例如，伊拉克？ 在哪裡Blackwater ？s多數突出的任務是照看白癡和狂熱L保羅Bremer III在他的期間期間當美國管理員在戰爭之後。 不幸地，您也許感覺，他們鑒於此寧可很好做了他們的工作，并且Bremer生存了他的任期。 在別處，然而， Blackwater是顯眼地災難的; 它是，在單一地輕率出擊期間unquelled Fallujah的四它的人，發現他們自己被伏擊，掃射和被亂砍對位以最野狩般的方式被被激起的本機。 他們的被肢解的身體在電纜之上在一座橋梁被投擲了在城市？ 并且他們的謀殺帶來了憤怒和致命的報復從美國軍事，再次幫助由更多Blackwater雇員。 傑里米Scahill，一些聲望的新聞工作者，不是相當肯定的，如果他應該由於責備Blackwater無能和疏忽在派遣這些人到什麼是幾乎某一死亡，或者為演奏更加黑暗的賽和(在cahoots以布什政權)有效設計美國沒有選擇的暴行，但反應以最嚴密的方式。 這是根據症狀的一個週期性問題在這否則縝密被研究的和引人入勝的書中： 我們是在沒有疑義至於作者來自，政治上的地方，并且他的peacenik性格有時變形他的評斷。 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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