Ethics

Erik Prince's Self-Pity

By Ed Brayton

Vanity Fair has an article about Blackwater founder Erik Prince that is absolutely mind-blowing. It begins with this incredibly tone deaf statement:

Iput myself and my company at the C.I.A.'s disposal for some very risky missions," says Erik Prince as he surveys his heavily fortified, 7,000-acre compound in rural Moyock, North Carolina. "But when it became politically expedient to do so, someone threw me under the bus."

Awww, I'm sorry. Did we not give you enough hundreds of millions of dollars to do the government's dirty work? You want a medal for smuggling illegal weapons out of the country, killing innocent people and bribing Iraqi officials? Are you not getting enough respect, Erik? My heart absolutely bleeds for you.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 05, 2009 (boomark / email).