Blackwater Keeps Rollin' on Past, Just the Same

The Economist headlines today with an article entitled "Iraq's Hired Guns--Privateers Under Fire". That headline is a shocking departure from the paper's usual accuracy in copyediting.

I would like to inform the editorial board of The Economist that:

"Guns" is spelt with a double o.

The word "Privateers" should actually contain an "ofi" where the "iva" is currently located.

And finally, the word spelt "Iraq" in this headline should be spelt "America".

Mercenaries have no place in a just war. Blackwater, with only about 1% of all American civillian personnel in Iraq, is merely the rust-flaked tip of the bayonet.