“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster,” Nietzsche said. “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”
We’re gazing into the abyss all right, and Blackwater is gazing back.
President Bush continues to preach that we must defeat the “dark ideology” of extremists with “a more hopeful vision.”
But the compromises W. makes to slog on in Iraq, be it with warlords, dictators or out-of-control contractors, are spreading a dark stain on America’s image.
One more stain on the blue dress of Bush's reign.
Americans have been antimercenary since the British sent 30,000 German Hessians after George Washington in the Revolutionary War.
But W. outsourced his presidency to Cheney and Rummy, and Cheney and Rummy went to war on the cheap and outsourced large chunks of the Iraq occupation to Halliburton and Blackwater. The American taxpayer got gouged, and so did the American reputation.
The mercenaries inflame Iraqis even as Gen. David Petraeus tries to win their trust.
How's that goin', General? Better than here, I hope. You fer damn sure have lost our trust.
Once there was the military-industrial complex. Now we have the mercenary-evangelical complex.
Oh fucking swell. Just what we need.
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