Re: Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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On 31 March, 2004, four Americans were ambushed and burend near their jeeps by an angry mob in the Sunni stronghold of Fallujah. Their charred corpses were hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River. The ensuing slaughter by US troops would fuel the Iraqi resistance that haunts occupation forces to this day. But, these men were neither America military not civilians. They were private soldiers sent to Iraq by a secretive mercenary company based in the wilderness of North Carolina.
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I don't know, it makes it sound like this is news or something. We always knew who they were. Also, this passage sounds like it tries to tie the incident into the wider conflict as a cause. They attacked Falluja because it was the center of gravity for resistance in the western part of the country.
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What kind of peace do I mean and what kind of a peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war.... not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women -- not merely peace in our time, but peace in all time.
JFK
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