One of the biggest fiascoes in the whole Iraq War clusterfuck was the massacre of civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square by the trigger-happy goons of a past State Department security contractor: Formerly known as Blackwater Worldwide, now known as Xe (and probably soon to be known as the Princess Sparkle Pony Armed Escort Service). Blackwater was not the only contracting company that acted like a pack of thugs, they were just the most prominent.
And so now the State Department is going to try it again.
When you do something that doesn't turn out right and you keep trying again, there is a line where you cross from "stubborn" into "stupid".
We have a group of people whose job is to provide security for embassies. They are called the United States Marines. If the problem is that the Iraqis don't want American soldiers in Iraq, then fine, put the Marines in civilian clothes and we'll all pretend they are not Marines.
It worked for decades when the Japanese said that they did not want nuclear weapons on their territory and everyone pretended that they didn't know that American warships during the Cold War had nukes in their magazines.
I didn't know that anyone could clusterfuck a clusterfuck. Looks like the State Department has figured out how to do it.
ReplyDeleteHillary gets her own army? I can't believe it. This plan is more ridiculous that the original invasion.
They better not try to call themselves that; I read Princess Sparkle Pony's blog all the time. Not only is it hilarious, it is some of the only sanity issuing forth from the DC area, as far as I can tell. But on topic: can't we prosecute criminals any more?
ReplyDelete-Doug in Oakland