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Blackwater The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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Scahill provides a well documented account of the private military movement. This is a must read for those seeking the next generation of investigative journalists. Scahill's critique is consistent, well researched, and timely.
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The topic of “hired” guns, no bid contract, private armies and misappropriation of billions is truly interesting, but the book became unreadable. Mr. Scahill’s reporting of the “facts” is so laced with his disdain for the Erik Prince and Bush doctrine he looses credibility with the reader. At some point one might find a contractor traveling in a convoy that is engulfed in flames, beaten and beheaded as “victim” not simply a heartless mercenary. The facts clearly support there were many atrocities committed in Iraq by contractors and the lack of culpability is unacceptable. However, if you paint every American as blood thirsty killer and every Iraqis as a innocent god fearing being, you are not credible
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Scahill had a great opportunity to expose Blackwater and how wrong it is for the US to be hiring mercenaries. (Its unAmerican!) But instead he crashes into "I hate republicans, I hate Catholics, I hate the military, but most of all I hate George Bush". Scahill could have compaired the cost of training and maintaining special troops verses hiring them as mercinaries, he could pointed out the greater security there is for the soldiers when they are part of the military or that what Blackwater does reflects on all of us. But no he went into a convulsion about how bad US policy was in Iraq, he represented jokes made by the US Ambassitor as facts, and how innocent and great the Iraq's were compaired to the Americans. Most of all I was disappointed this book had about as much spin as O'Riley's "No Spin Zone"
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Blackwater is a very informative read, I truly learned a lot of hard facts I had no previous knowledge on. Be sure to check out Jeremy Scahill's original essay on Powells.
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ISBN:
9781568583945
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
07/01/2008
Publisher:
FOUR WALLS EIGHT WINDOWS
Pages:
560
Height:
1.80IN
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5.50IN
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1.50
Age Range:
18 and up
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13 and up
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Copyright Year:
2008
Author:
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