Yesterday Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. I suggested that his speech was gag-inducing and spent the rest of the day, here and elsewhere, being attacked for not seeing how incredibly subtle his “war is peace” philosophy is.
I was also roundly attacked for suggesting that his claim that there is “evil in the world” and for decades it has been the US’s burden to fight “evil” with “just wars” sounded a hell of a lot like the Neocon rhetoric of George Dubbya and his granddaddy Ronald Reagan.
Today we have news about Blackwater, the huge, mercenary army, now known as Xe security that is waging war for the US government, with our tax dollars, but without much supervision.
Needless to say, the kinda people who go to war for money are not what we might call “the good guys.”
Blackwater operatives have been accused of murder and torture and being the cause of a large number of civilian deaths.
Perhaps even scarier, Blackwater employees have come forward to talk about how company founder, Erik Prince, is on a Christian mission to eliminate all Muslims, how Prince recruited fellow Christians who looked on killing Muslims “like a game,” and that they even employed calls of the Knights of the Templar while engaging in atrocities against the Iraqi people who were killed as if “for sport.”
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