When the United States uses them, they’re “contractors”. When the same contractors work for the United Arab Emirates, the Times finds the courage to use the right word: mercenaries.
Words do make a difference. We don’t need “ethnic cleansing”, when “genocide” will do, and no one ever calls them “Hessian contractors”.
Erik Prince, the paymaster and owner of this mercenary army, was originally enabled by the US government, and has used that initial infusion of money and quasi-respectability as a launching pad to engage in criminal activity on a massive scale. (Except, of course, if you make billions in criminal activity, the cops never seem to notice- ask almost anyone on Wall Street). These types have a way of coming back to haunt you. There was this guy named Osama, for instance.
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