AoD Post #2

The U.S. government is evaluating the dangers of using Blackwater, due to its previous actions in the killing of innocent civilians.

This action is an example of evaluation because the U.S. government is using the lessons they have learned in the previous action of hiring Blackwater by doing a security review. Blackwater is heavily relied upon by the U.S. government. When Blackwater does anything, they mostly represent the American army and therefore America's government. Blackwater was protecting a U.S. embassy when they apparently killed 17 innocent civilians. This caused some trouble for the U.S. with the Iraqi government, meaning that our government ran to checking the problem. They learned that perhaps hiring military mercenaries that run and shoot like cowboys is a bad idea because it usually hurts your PR with not only your own, but other countries. They are now considering 2 other soldier-hiring businesses that might perform better than Blackwater. They have also realized certain points that should be present in a hired force: the handling of suspicious situations, whether or not the "cowboy-mentality" affects performance in these situations, and whether of not a foreign force is necessary to protect U.S. embassies and such. Even though the review is not yet completed, restrictive measures are also being temporarily put in place by the government to prevent such mistakes from happening again. These actions and outlines display the governments evaluation of the Blackwater incident. Another issue the evaluation may bring up is that using foreign contractors is a bad idea in the first place because they aren't 100% controlled by the government, whereas the army is.