Wallensteinism

[Otto]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
To: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>; "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: Wallensteinism


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> http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html
>
> ... in Iraq, however, is that they are performing
> interrogation and intelligence functions, even. And I
> can't recall which columnist where mentioned how such
> employees used to be known as "mercenaries," but ...
>

"This is not the first time the US has resorted to mercenaries. The exploits
of the pilots who flew in south-east Asia for the CIA front company, Air
America, are legendary. As today in Colombia and Peru, Air America provided
Washington with distance and deniability. But it was a CIA-run operation.
Today's mercenaries in the drug war are provided by private companies
selling a service and are used as a matter of course by both the state and
defence."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4197028,00.html