Terrible thing, that shooting of eighteen Iraqis who found themselves in harm's way of some frightened invaders of their country.
Actually they were hired to be invaders of Iraq no differently than members of the U.S. military, who receive a salary with extra pay for going to combat in Iraq or Afghanistan, maybe with a bonus for having enlisted or re-enlisted - except that they receive less pay than civilians who know how to use guns hired in the marketplace.
Blackwater's deadly armed invading employees acted in quite the usual frightened manner of military who imagine they are under attack firing in every direction out of fear of being killed or wounded themselves.
It's too bad that the U.S. is so politically in control of the United Nations that its military personnel or citizens could never have been tried under the Nuremberg Laws for invading Korea, Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Lebanon, Dominican Republic, Panama, Grenada, Afghanistan, Iraq. Because once one has invaded and faces hostile reaction, it is quite normal to react by killing everyone in sight, whether on orders or not. But if the earliest invaders had been prosecuted and convicted, fewer would have wanted to follow and risk being charged with a crime by invading countries without so much as being under a formal declaration of war.
When it comes to America's wars, Americans, in general, think amorally, if not immorally, and with traditional indifference to foreign life, supporting their government for whatever it does to or in other nations.
There are, however, quite a lot of exceptionally patriotic and pro-humanity Americans who, in spite of big media's intentional distraction, are interested in the crimes of its government and regardless of who is president. If one Googles "Blackwater assassins free", eight hundred entries, on eighty pages come up.
Those Americans who are not distracted from their responsibility for their government's crimes, understand that citizens, in uniform or not, violently invading poor small nations is cowardly in itself and thereafter will most certainly lead to personal danger and very probably further acts cowardice.
