: re: Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater

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From: barry levine 
Date: Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:41 AM
Subject: re: Before Shooting in Iraq, a Warning on Blackwater
To: "letters@nytimes.com"

To the Editor:

    A mercenary security force for our embassies and their staff impedes our diplomatic effort and makes our diplomats less secure.   While we mourn the death of ambassador Chris Stevens in Libya, we must acknowledge that he was exactly the sort of collateral damage we should expect when revolutionaries wage war against assassins and thugs claiming diplomatic immunity in our State Department missions.  

    The American public still doesn't know how much we paid to get Raymond Davis out of Pakistan after he murdered two locals. But the death of ambassador Stevens must be tallied as part of that price.

Barry Haskell Levine

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/us/before-shooting-in-iraq-warning-on-blackwater.html?_r=0