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roachboy · 08-26-2010, 11:15 AM

http://www.kentlaw.edu/jicl/articles...k_Calaguas.pdf

this is an interesting article that provides a brief overview of private contractors/mercenaries in their post-cold war form(s) and the arguments for and against using them. it's not definitive but it's one of those useful quick read secondary processing bits...

just to situate the discussion.

o yeah: you can find some infotainment on p. 18 of that article which indicates just how much mercenaries and other private "defense" contractors like republicans.

and the entire dynamic results in (again) this problem being raised:

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_Red_Ce...22,_2_Feb_2010

which is (to repeat) what happens if people either figure out that the u.s. in fact is or begin to see the u.s. as exporting "terror"?

uh oh.

because one of the central "advantages" of these mercenaries is that the allow countries like, for example, the united states to circumvent those pesky legal restrictions on actions and adherence to those "quaint" human rights rules. unless of course they get caught. think abu ghraib. but i digress.

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roachboy Super Moderator Location: essex ma	http://www.kentlaw.edu/jicl/articles...k_Calaguas.pdf this is an interesting article that provides a brief overview of private contractors/mercenaries in their post-cold war form(s) and the arguments for and against using them. it's not definitive but it's one of those useful quick read secondary processing bits... just to situate the discussion. o yeah: you can find some infotainment on p. 18 of that article which indicates just how much mercenaries and other private "defense" contractors like republicans. and the entire dynamic results in (again) this problem being raised: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/CIA_Red_Ce...22,_2_Feb_2010 which is (to repeat) what happens if people either figure out that the u.s. in fact is or begin to see the u.s. as exporting "terror"? uh oh. because one of the central "advantages" of these mercenaries is that the allow countries like, for example, the united states to circumvent those pesky legal restrictions on actions and adherence to those "quaint" human rights rules. unless of course they get caught. think abu ghraib. but i digress. __________________ a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear it make you sick. -kamau brathwaite Last edited by roachboy; 08-26-2010 at 11:28 AM..