Who's Sorry Now?
The mercenaries, er, contractors and the embeds in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Because of 5 words that will force them to comply with the law. Duh! It sure took long enough. RS has it all:The addition of five little words to a massive US legal code that fills entire shelves at law libraries wouldn't normally matter for much. But with this change, contractors' 'get out of jail free' card may have been torn to shreds.
We've posted the Licensed to Kill, Contractor's Creed enough times....it's the angry-white man's dream....kill the bastards and be damned! Well, boys, looks like the party may be over.
The mercenaries, er, contractors and the embeds in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why? Because of 5 words that will force them to comply with the law. Duh! It sure took long enough. RS has it all:The addition of five little words to a massive US legal code that fills entire shelves at law libraries wouldn't normally matter for much. But with this change, contractors' 'get out of jail free' card may have been torn to shreds.
We've posted the Licensed to Kill, Contractor's Creed enough times....it's the angry-white man's dream....kill the bastards and be damned! Well, boys, looks like the party may be over.
Over the last few years, tales of private military contractors run amuck in Iraq -- from the CACI interrogators at Abu Ghraib to the Aegis company's Elvis-themed internet "trophy video" —- have continually popped up in the headlines. Unfortunately, when it came to actually doing something about these episodes of Outsourcing Gone Wild, Hollywood took more action than Washington. The TV series Law and Order punished fictional contractor crimes, while our courts ignored the actual ones. Leonardo Dicaprio acted in a movie featuring the private military industry, while our government enacted no actual policy on it. But those carefree days of military contractors romping across the hills and dales of the Iraqi countryside, without legal status or accountability, may be over. The Congress has struck back.
