tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33904443.post486148251359102565..comments2014-09-08T10:35:13.835-07:00Comments on True Randomness: Mercenarily RandomLa Professorahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01001230336182978633noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33904443.post-42126517727595496282007-10-15T21:16:00.000-07:002007-10-15T21:16:00.000-07:00Surely the greater crime here is the fact that an ...Surely the greater crime here is the fact that an organization founded on violence and involuntary relations - the state - expropriates the wealth of the people it rules (as well as the people themselves, i.e. conscription) in order to benefit its friends and murder people en masse. In this case those friends are Blackwater and those people are Iraqis.<BR/><BR/>Before the Blackwater incident the British journal Lancet came to the conclusion that up to 100,000 Iraqis had died from the invasion and subsequent occupation. (This may or may not have included the sanction years, but I don't think it did.) I hardly think that absent Blackwater our troops could get on with the task of routing out the insurgency and winning hearts and minds. Fallujah, Haditha, checkpoint shootings, etc.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07562212388703596184noreply@blogger.com