{"id":4628,"date":"2011-05-15T09:13:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4628"},"modified":"2011-05-15T09:13:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T14:13:16","slug":"the-times-uses-the-m-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4628","title":{"rendered":"The Times uses the &#8220;M&#8221; word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the United States uses them, they&#8217;re &#8220;contractors&#8221;. When the same contractors work for the United Arab Emirates, the Times finds the courage to use the right word: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/15\/world\/middleeast\/15prince.html?hp\">mercenaries<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Words do make a difference. We don&#8217;t need &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221;, when &#8220;genocide&#8221; will do, and no one ever calls them &#8220;Hessian contractors&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the United States uses them, they&#8217;re &#8220;contractors&#8221;. 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&#8217;t need &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221;, when &#8220;genocide&#8221; will do, and no one ever calls them &#8220;Hessian contractors&#8221;. Erik Prince, the paymaster [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}