Natural Selection — Blackwater Style
183 ViewsAre Americans ready for this? Of course not, but you’ve got to wonder how in the hell we’re going to deal with this type of scum:
This seems to have been the generic plot, which was played out repeatedly. Blackwater guards shoot Iraqis. The Iraqi government protests. Blackwater guards claim they were fired at. The U.S. government — personified by Condi Rice’s State. Department — shrugs, yawns and looks the other way. No one ever investigates. No one is ever held to account.
And Blackwater guards learn, by personal experience, that the U.S. government has given them a free license to engage in the ultimate bloodsport—hunting man. You shoot, you kill. And you live to shoot and kill another day.
Is it at all far-fetched to speculate that after a few years this was the scuttlebutt in mercenary recruiting circles too? To speculate that Blackwater attracted the kind of scum to whom this bloodsport would appeal. That, by a process of self-selection, Blackwater naturally ended up hiring the kind of scum who would perpetrate something like the September 16 Nisoor Square killings, just for fun. Natural Selection a la Blackwater
These are your sons and (probably) some of your daughters America. Murderers. Licensed to kill with complete impunity. Unbelievable.
November 14th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
And I just read this morning that Blackwater is in contention for new US Gov. Drug War contracts. You can google this article.
November 15th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Great article and observation, and states what I’ve been saying for years (and Nicolo Machiavelli, said some 400 years ago) - Those who would entertain such employment are little more than self-selecting armed thugs, with no honor, loyalty, or motivation beyond a paycheck and the sick satisfaction the mentally ill receive from torment. These are the kind of sociopaths that used to read “Soldier of Fortune” magazine and drool at the thought of intentionally offing others for amusement.
“Mercenaries and auxiliaries are useless and dangerous; and if one holds his state based on these arms, he will stand neither firm nor safe; for they are disunited, ambitious and without discipline, unfaithful, valiant before friends, cowardly before enemies; they have neither the fear of God nor fidelity to men, and destruction is deferred only so long as the attack is; for in peace one is robbed by them, and in war by the enemy.”
November 15th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Nicolo Machiavelli and Thomas Hobbes are both well worth reading. They had much to say that has always been true since well befgore humanity claimed (alleged) ‘civilization’. Hobbes, as it’s turning out, was in effect a soothsayer - prophetic.
“Leviathan”, Hobbes’ most prescient if not infamous work, is very hard reading (17th Century prose). Here is an online version http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/hobbes/leviathan-contents.html
Hobbes put forth the doctrine that the affairs and mind of men (humans) is ruled by ” bellum omnium contra omnes” a Latin phrase meaning “the war of all against all”. Societies (aka ‘civilzation’, Laws) were established so that people would voluntarially sacrifice liberty and freedoms in order to enjoy peace and security. This is (always has been) purely an illusion since “the war of all against all” is merely continued - even amplified - albeit in marginally disguised forms. As Ben Franklin noted, those that would sacrifice their freedoms for a bit of (imagined) security deserve (and have) neither. As societies collapse, humans always have and always will return to the ‘natural state’ of “war of all against all”. It can be and will be no other way. Plan accordingly.
For a very cursory introduction, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellum_omnium_contra_omnes
November 15th, 2007 at 8:48 am
That is a great read, highly recommended.
I think Hobbes was right, it’s always been every man for himself, despite the illusions and fabrications we’ve created to make it appear otherwise.