Blackwater, the mercenary army made rich by George Bush, is now planning to go into the pirate fighting business. Via Thinkprogress:
Private security firm Blackwater Worldwide began holding meetings in London on Tuesday with potential clients for a new business venture — protection from pirates.
The Moyock, N.C., firm, which has grown rapidly through State Department security work in Iraq, has been courting shippers and insurance firms about protecting ships in pirate-infested waters. It’s meeting with more than a dozen firms this week and hopes to drum up its first contract.
It is remarkable that the rise of private armies has raised so few hackles around the world. I remember, in those naive days of my youth, being taught that governments had a monopoly on the use of force. That’s the civilized way, or as civilized as it gets. We now treat private armies as just another business.
This will come to no good. That’s obvious. I suppose when we reap the whirlwind on this one we’ll hear a chorus telling us that no one could have seen it coming.
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