Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Blackwater Chairman Erik Prince "cast his company as a scapegoat for broader problems associated with the government’s reliance on security contractors." Is he seriously claiming to have been victimized when it was his decision to accept high-risk/high-pay-off contracts? Was he not aware of the potential for public blow-back on a company that basically has a competitive advantage over the U.S. Military in a grisly war theater? How is it that these Republican supporters (Prince has given hundreds of thousands of his own dollars to Republicans) can jump on anybody else for playing the victim when they act so preyed upon themselves and with so little justification?