While the State Department has frequently covered for Blackwater, particularly over the Nisour Square incident, the military has tended to be more candid. “It may be worse than Abu Ghraib,” a senior officer said last week, at a time when diplomats were, at most, conceding “there’s an issue here” and urging calm in the aftermath of the shooting. That shouldn’t be surprising: after all, it’s the 160,000 troops in Iraq who suffer by association with reckless contractors.
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