Friday, January 26, 2007
Any comment?
yet another MSM Can ‘O Worms™ ?
LAT:
...a significant development in the U.S. disaster response/reconstruction/war machine: a Civilian Reserve Corps.......At last count, there were about 100,000 contractors in Iraq, of which 48,000 work as private soldiers, according to a Government Accountability Office report. These soldiers have operated with almost no oversight or effective legal constraints and are an undeclared expansion of the scope of the occupation.... [LAT flagrant use of that word e-C]
... Erik Prince, the secretive, mega-millionaire, conservative owner of Blackwater USA… a major bankroller of the president and his allies — pitched the idea at a military conference of a “contractor brigade” to supplement the official military.
Ok—strip off the “editorial” language and each of those is a subject of its own. Whatcha think —as a concept? —in the specific?
Now for the LAT “professional journalism spin:”
...Such power in the hands of one company, run by a neo-crusader bankroller of the president, embodies the “military-industrial complex” President Eisenhower warned against in 1961.
Further privatizing the country’s war machine — or inventing new back doors for military expansion with fancy names like the Civilian Reserve Corps — will represent a devastating blow to the future of American democracy.
“neo-crusader”?!? Ok—that’s a new one on me.
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