{"id":1852,"date":"2008-08-23T02:17:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T02:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-08-23T03:17:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T03:17:01","slug":"blackfive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1852","title":{"rendered":"Blackwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was just part of a junket which culminated in a meeting with the president of Blackwater (yes, that Blackwater&#8230;). I&#8217;m still digesting a lot of it, and will have more comments. But one thing he said really hit me &#8211; that <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Blotter\/story?id=5617186&#038;page=1\" target=\"browser\">with 300 of his troops<\/a> (the news story says 250, but his comment was for 300) and 600 elite troops they would pick and mentor from the AU forces, they could shut down the genocide in Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t ask what he charges for his forces, but imagine that it&#8217;s $50,000\/month\/pair of boots. That&#8217;s $15 million a month &#8211; $180 million for the year. Why aren&#8217;t we having a telethon with Hollywood celebrities raising money for this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about stars raising money for mercenaries in Darfur??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}