An intense article about Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince in the newly-remodeled version of Newsweek.
Prince’s casual mingling of his Christian faith with his “private security firm” has always struck me as just a little bit odd. I try and imagine him before going in to pitch clients on more business. Does he pray? Does he ask God to grant him bigger parts of a war? Weird at best.
Prince arrived with someone he described as his head of business operations. My memory may be faulty but I recall the man never took off his sunglasses. They walked me through Blackwater and its “extraordinary force capacity”. I told him it wasn’t yet clear how much the Secret Service was going to be involved. “The Secret Service is a joke,” Prince boasted, “and It is only a matter of time till America realizes how much of a joke they really are.”
Suffice it to say Prince didn’t lack confidence in himself.
He didn’t get the contract though it seems the Iraq War has made up for it.