Wallensteinism

[joeallonby]

on 6/1/04 1:29 AM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:

> ----- 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
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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
> 
The Flying Tigers?