Where Blackwater comes from
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/929.html
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The Picture of Erik Prince
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
09/14/10
Why compare Erik Prince, founder, owner and former CEO of Xe Services, a.k.a. Blackwater Worldwide, with the fictional villain Dorian Gray? Because while Gray was in one sense an allegory for the corruption of Victorian England, so Prince is a parable for post-9/11 America and the Global War on Terror. Prince, of course, is a mortal man, not a literary device. He cannot belie the lines on his once boyish face by conveying them to a painting locked in his attic. He has, however, spent the last decade as the beneficiary of our own voracious but mishandled appetite for war. He has grown in wealth — in power and in coin — while the United States, like the ugly portrait hidden away, bears the grotesque scars of its elaborate financial and moral sacrifices...
http://tinyurl.com/2cr3wr7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Erik+Prince
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
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The Picture of Erik Prince
AntiWar.Com
by Kelley B. Vlahos
09/14/10
Why compare Erik Prince, founder, owner and former CEO of Xe Services, a.k.a. Blackwater Worldwide, with the fictional villain Dorian Gray? Because while Gray was in one sense an allegory for the corruption of Victorian England, so Prince is a parable for post-9/11 America and the Global War on Terror. Prince, of course, is a mortal man, not a literary device. He cannot belie the lines on his once boyish face by conveying them to a painting locked in his attic. He has, however, spent the last decade as the beneficiary of our own voracious but mishandled appetite for war. He has grown in wealth — in power and in coin — while the United States, like the ugly portrait hidden away, bears the grotesque scars of its elaborate financial and moral sacrifices...
http://tinyurl.com/2cr3wr7
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Blackwater
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Erik+Prince
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=9/11
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Global+War+on+Terror
http://sharenews.twoday.net/search?q=Kelley+B.+Vlahos
rudkla - 5. Sep, 19:19
