Don’t read this about Blackwater! Why ruin your illusions, so carefully manufactured by our government’s info ops.
I strongly recommend reading this in full. It’s a long and well-documented (as such things go) article. Why should foreigners be the only ones to know the truth about America’s wars? “Blackwater’s Secret War in Pakistan“, Jeremy Scahill, The Nation, 23 November 2009 — Excerpt: At a covert forward operating base run by the US …