Reddit reviews Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated]

I would be careful about what you say about her. Someone might come and talk to you. Her brother founded Blackwater, the largest private army in the world. They murder with impunity, and are above the law. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army [Revised and Updated] https://www.amazon.com/dp/156858394X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_yFgqyb73WAW7R

Edit: I'm not really concerned about your safety, but my point is with the rise of tyranny on American soil (and I'm not singling out trump here) your government increasingly becomes something to fear.

The educational aspects, of this emerging tyrannical phenomena of American governance, facilitates freedom of the government to use/abuse non-constitutionally granted authority/power. Because the public keeps the government in check. Unless they're too stupid to accomplish that function.

From a great post on /r/neutralpolitics from /u/rynebrandon, I quote:

> Why I think George W. Bush is arguably one of the five worst presidents in our history and inarguably one of the ten worst is one thing: The Iraq War. The Iraq War was a massive failure of the intelligence community, intellectual honesty and transparency in our political system and good common sense. Using my method of measuring the quality of presidential candidates, the Afghanistan War likely would have happened in some form or fashion under a Gore Administration or a McCain Administration or really anyone in power at the time. However, no other politician - none in the 2000 presidential field (Edit: based on subsequent conversation it appears there's at least some possibility the Iraq War happens under McCain) - would have moved for war with Iraq which was widely considered - even at the time - a distraction from the War on Terror and it's not like the War on Terror couldn't be criticized in its own right. The various failures of the Iraq War have been recounted in numerous places: Abu Ghraib, crony contracts to companies like Halliburton, the privatization of key American military operations. But those are all somewhat narrow execution concerns in a chaotic time - war is often messy. To me, the most unforgiveable facet of the Iraq War is that it happened at all.

Maybe there isn't "no way", but it would have been highly unlikely.

Scahill's book "Blackwater: The Rise Of The World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army" is a very difficult but informative read. It focuses on exactly how Blackwater (Xe) gained so much political clout and how they actually use their resources. I could only read a chapter or two at a time because it just made me physically ill. Scahill has quite a lot to say specifically about Prince and his upbringing.

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Scahill's book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army is really good. It's several years old but goes into depth about Prince and his merc fetish.

For anyone who would like to know, the following books I've read are my favorite and I'd really recommend them to anyone: The Martian by Andy Weir, Gerald's Game by Stephen King, The Panther by Nelson DeMille, Unflinching by Jodi Mitic, American Sniper by Chris Kyle, and Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

EDIT: Oh, and Blackwater - The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army by Jeremy Scahill.

EDDIT 2: Oh, and Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card which is so much better than the movie. The movie does not do this novel justice. And Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly.

The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill wrote a good book on Blackwater.

Here's a good Primer video, and yes, it's literally sponsored by Call of Duty.

www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Powerful-Mercenary-Revised-Updated/dp/156858394X

Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill is a great look into OIF which is the most significant event to happen in the region in the 21st century.

His book Dirty Wars is also excellent.

Also, Legacy of Ashes

This is all super American centric, but there's a reason for that.

There is also a book about Blackwater (published in 2008). https://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Powerful-Mercenary-Revised-Updated/dp/156858394X/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486529706&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=blackkwater

Well, since you can not reason someone out of a position they have so clearly failed to reason themselves into I won't waste any time explaining on just how many levels you are so deeply mistaken.

Suffice to say that your grandfather didn't fight alongside mine or anyone else's so an Australian media mogul could set the news agenda upon a paranoid far right conspiracy theory as opposed to the facts.

If that is what they were fighting for, they certainly weren't doing it in my name or the name of the vast majority of my fellow British Europeans—who consider it a travesty on a grand scale that a once proud nation such as the United States should have slipped so far behind in education that opinions such as yours are even tolerated, much less aired without shame.

Here's some non-fiction for your otherwise barren bookshelf:

http://www.amazon.com/Blackwater-Powerful-Mercenary-Revised-Updated/dp/156858394X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255395691&sr=8-1