Talk:Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army

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BetacommandBot 02:29, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

"Scahill argues"
Is it accurate to repeatedly characterize the author's writing as "argument/arguing/argues" or can we find a better verb? User:Pedant 76.95.104.7 (talk) 16:21, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Good point. Perhaps better would be something like 'in the book, Scahill describes his research and etc' or something of that sort. Racooon (talk) 14:11, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

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Should author's political viewpoint be mentioned?
After correcting a bad link (new link ) I noticed that the author was a frequent contributor to "The Nation" which endorsed Bernie Sanders. It seems fair to characterize the "The Nation" as "liberal" and an excerpt from one review of Blackwater indicates the book may have a "liberal agenda":

Before discussing the main themes of Blackwater, one important, initial point requires mention. Although Blackwater is a well-researched book, it is not a scholarly work but a polemic, through and through. And while the book is often entertaining, it is also frequently annoying in tone and rhetoric. “Blackwater is a private army,” Scahill tells us breathlessly, “and it is controlled by one person: Erik Prince, a radical right-wing Christian mega-millionaire who has served as a major bankroller not only of President Bush’s campaigns but of the broader Christian-right agenda” (p. 55). These common, over-the-top utterances regrettably make substantial portions of the book unreadable

I am not proposing wholesale changes to the article, but I do think that at least removing the bad link that I corrected and replacing it with a link to the (more up-to-date) wikipedia article on the Nisour Square incident would be appropriate.

JoshuaWKnight (talk) 22:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)

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