ARTICLE: Other Killings By Blackwater Staff Detailed, By Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, October 2, 2007; Page A01ARTICLE: Most in Poll Want War Funding Cut, By Jon Cohen and Dan Balz, Washington Post, October 2, 2007; Page A01
These go nicely hand-in-hand: we want to reduce burden (money equals bodies at risk) and that means more reliance on private security firms.
Intellectually disconnected, but financially it's easy to spot the risk shift, meaning we'll need to radically upgrade the rule set on firms like Blackwater, because it won't be going away, so housebreaking it now as opposed to later makes sense.
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It would be interesting to be on the committee that writes the rules for the contractors of the future. It would have to have people with knowledge and "real world" experience in several areas. Military, Law Enforcement, Executive Protection, Private Security and both Civil and Criminal law. But what is important here is that somebody has to take "ownership" of these guys. They need rules and they also need the protection of some legal "status". At a recent press conference a Pentagon spokesman claimed that they (US military) had no statistics on the number of contractors killed or wounded in Iraq. How absurd.
Posted by Ted O'Connor | October 4, 2007 2:33 PM