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...they be held accountable? If you've ever hired contractors to remodel your kitchen, you know their interests are not identical to yours. It's hard to know whether Blackwater's hired guns are trigger-happy, but it's easy to see how their limited mission of protecting individuals could conflict with a larger military goal that depends on convincing Iraqis we're not the enemy...
That may be about to change. Around the middle of next year, Indian automobile manufacturer Tata Motors intends to launch a new model that will be so inexpensive, the company hopes it will trigger a revolution in car ownership, not just in India but throughout the developing world. The planned vehicle is called the "One-Lakh Car" because, Tata says, the rear-engine, 600-cc, four-door sedan will cost a lakh, or 100,000 rupees. At current exchange rates, the sticker price would be the equivalent of about $2,500. That's $3,000 less than India's current...
Watch enough TV commercials, and you get the sense that Americans are obsessed with air freshener. Trigger-happy women routinely rush around the house armed with cans of the stuff, gleefully spraying running shoes, embarrassed dogs and cigar-smoke-laden furniture; whole families, it seems, are intoxicated by the fresh scent of Summer Breeze or Berry Burst...
...Iraqis this is all infuriatingly irrelevant. They look at Blackwater as trigger-happy mercenaries, and Iraqis don't want any armed foreign security contractors in their country. Do we let Iraqi embassy private security contractors race around Washington or New York, machine guns sticking out the window, to prevent carjackings...
...Papering over the problem by expelling Blackwater from Iraq leaves dozens of other companies working in Iraq, with their fingers on the trigger. With anywhere from 25,000 to 48,000 security contractors in country, we're bound to have another incident like Sunday...