Re:Blackwater Founder Wants to Provide “Turn Key” Mercenary ...
by Bartweiss on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:47PM
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I'm sort of stunned at all the people saying "the military is already rogue so it's fine". It feels alarmingly ahistorical - a military the public is unhappy with is bad, but the history of e.g. Rome ought to speak to how vastly much worse military privatization can become.
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Re:Blackwater Founder Wants to Provide “Turn Key” Mercenary ...
by wavefunction on Sunday August 06, 2017 @11:51PM
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We even have more recent examples with the specific guy proposing this 'adventure.'
Truly depraved criminal actions by personnel in the employ of his merc company.