Most of us know the media news is politically liberal. I tend to watch the more conservative Fox News on television. The political left complains that radio and television are absolutely dominated by Fox. This is crazy. They are not. Yes, Fox is definitely biased to the right, but also trys (on hard news) to at present more balanced programing. The other Network News, CBS,ABC, NBC, and MSNBC are solidly biased to the liberal left. And they have 100%+ more power in the market. They dominate - not FOX.
Over some years the name Blackwater shows up in the news. It is, by their own estimation, the largest mercenary group in the world. I think I first noticed it when reports from Iraq mentioned they were employed (by whom?) to escort and protect members of the Iraqi government from place to place. Then I became aware that they had joined several of the firefights between our marines and Iraqi enemies. I wondered just how these mercenaries (that supposedly came from the United States) were hired by someone (who?) to fight? That led to the question of just who would be responsible if a situation involved the accidental killing of an innocent bystander? It might be a little sticky for an unauthorised mercenary contracted by the United States but not a member of our military forces. Or suppose a Blackwater type killed a military Iraqi combatant and was then captured by the enemy. Would he be treated as a spy, or as a American combatant, or whatelse...
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