October 02, 2007
More details on the Blackwater massacre
Ugh. Looks as if the bomb explosion was real, but the supposed gunfire from the crowd was imaginary. One of the Blackwater guys shot and killed a driver, whose car then rolled forward toward the Blackwater position, convincing them that they were under attack and leading to indiscriminate firing into a crowd consisting entirely or almost entirely of non-enemies.
No wonder the FBI has started a criminal investigation.
Yes, the Blackwater fighters were in a tough spot, surrounded by what they knew was a hostile population; if they'd been guarding someone in New York when a bomb went off, they wouldn't have fired wildly into a crowd of American civilians. But since that hostile Iraqi population is crucial to our effort in Iraq — not to mention being the people we're supposedly in Iraq to help — maybe Blackwater and the State Department ought to be a little bit more careful about increasing their hostility.
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