The Iraqi government accuses Blackwater personnel of killing innocent Iraqi civilians. Blackwater disagrees. It seems both concerned governments have an investigation scheduled. You seem to have taken the side of Blackwater in advance, but assume, just for a moment, that the investigation does turn up evidence that Blackwater guards did kill innocent people. Will you then admit that Balckwater behaved wrongly, that the deployment of private “security” and the “outsourcing” of war amounts to a mistake, and that if it leads to a major failure (as in a collapse in the US effort in Iraq), the policy makers concerned will have only themselves to blame. Would you agree that the humiliation of the United States in Iraq under those circumstances might have at least the salutary effect of encouraging both public and politicians to take war a bit more seriously?
If you have some argument that the US war effort justifies the killing of innocent people and the deployment of wholly unaccountable private “security contractors”, can we hear it now?
