Erik Prince is once more in the news. One must truly wonder about how any given two parents could raise siblings as loathsome as he and Betsy DeVos, but pondering that is for another day.
This time he’s been caughttrying to make money by helping China persecute Muslims:
But Mr. Prince scrambled on Friday to distance himself from the latest announcement: that his company, Frontier Services Group, had struck a deal to build a training camp in the northwestern Chinese region of Xinjiang, where hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been detained in indoctrination camps that have drawn condemnation in Washington and abroad.
My beef is with the New York Times. (What else is new?) Why, when dealing with right wingers, does the Time feel the need to airbrush things? Prince made a name for himself, we are told, as “a private military contractor”. He has “employees”. There’s a perfectly good word that the Times avoids as much as it avoids the word “lie” when talking about a certain genius. The word is “mercenary”. Look it up in any dictionary. It says it all and obfuscates nothing.
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