NoMississipiMoonVille
A whole lot of pro-media and bloggodome bubbles have been bursting today due to the yanking of Blackwater's licence by the Iraqi government after the hired guns/mercs 'allegedly' killed and wounded a number of Iraqi civilians.
Blackwater, as you might expect, is using the Pavel Bure defense of 'We didn't do anything wrong', while many soft and hard boiled geopol wonks alike are suggesting that this may be a case of the al Maliki government finally asserting its sovereignty.
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I have two additional thoughts......
First, imagine your own response if hired invaders came to your town, shot the place up, killed natives in the process, and then said, to quote the Blackwater spokesmodel:
``We responded well within the rules of engagement to protect our people,'' (BW spokeswoman) Tyrrell said. ``And we protected them and then we got out. They did their jobs defending American (ie. invader) life.''
(stuff in brackets mine)
I mean, can we even conceive of such a thing?
Second, while asserting sovereignty may be one of their motivations, I would think that the al Maliki government knows full well that any removal of Mercs from their midst would be a very prudent aspect of any Anti-Allawi* protection plan that has any hope in heckfire of succeeding.
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*a.k.a. 'Coup protection'
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