{"id":69,"date":"2007-09-27T21:16:57","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T21:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2007-09-27T22:01:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T22:01:52","slug":"blackwater-plays-a-hollywood-reality-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/blackwater-plays-a-hollywood-reality-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater plays a Hollywood reality show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astraea.net\/holonics\/magazine\/images\/2007\/blackwaterbig20070918.jpg?resize=190%2C125\" title=\"blackwater dudes\" alt=\"blackwater dudes\" align=\"right\" height=\"125\" width=\"190\" \/>A great name for a security company staffed with mercenaries paid to look after top American officials in a hot spot with immunity from prosecution for killing anyone.  Will Matt Damon be the good guy?     In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/27\/world\/middleeast\/27contractor.html?ref=todayspaper\">Blackwater<\/a> USA is a private contractor employed by the US State Department.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/18\/world\/middleeast\/18iraq.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th&amp;oref=slogin\">ban on their operations for killing 8 civilians<\/a> only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/22\/world\/middleeast\/22iraq.html\">lasted a few days<\/a>.  They&#8217;re back at work now, 4 days later.  I guess it was justifiable.<\/p>\n<p>Soldiers have conscience and discipline, and even some convention of behaviour.  It must be a tough life in Iraq, for any one.  It is right for the US administration to seek the highest standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great name for a security company staffed with mercenaries paid to look after top American officials in a hot spot with immunity from prosecution for killing anyone. Will Matt Damon be the good guy? In fact, Blackwater USA is a private contractor employed by the US State Department. The ban on their operations for &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/blackwater-plays-a-hollywood-reality-show\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blackwater plays a Hollywood reality show<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-17","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}