DISQUS

The Washington Independent: Blackwater’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

  • taywray · 1 year ago
    Awesome post. Americans, and the world at large, would benefit from a lot more clarity and transparency regarding private security contractors like these.
  • mikemidcity · 1 year ago
    Why are these corporations allowed to exist? At what point will another corporation hire them to impose some WTO directive on some 3rd world country that objects to a disparaging contract?

    This crap feast is wrong on so many levels.

    That Blackwater is allowed, indeed has a right to, make political contributions to politicians who advance their financial interest, war, is a national moral shame.

    I support Barack Obama, but I would like to know what he will do to fix this.
  • ajm8127 · 1 year ago
    Well put mikemidcity.

    Paid fighters have no place in political wars. These merchants of death make a profit from killing, sometimes indiscriminately. I think that these corporations are immoral. Then again, I also think that insurance companies with sky high premiums and screening for pre- existing conditions are immoral too (sometime you are born with a disease you didn't exactly ask for. Should you be punished for that?). Maybe I should be the one saying "God damn America". The current situation in a country that I once felt proud being a part of makes me sick. But hey, anything to make a buck, right?