And eventually everything calms down and you can get back to business as usual.  Based on James Risen’s report in the New York Times, that’s what appears to have happened with Blackwater USA, the private security contractor with the largest role in protecting U.S. personnel and resources in Iraq.  Eight months ago Blackwater guards were involved in a shooting incident in Baghdad — the infamous Nisour Square shootout — which ended with 17 Iraqi civilians dead.  Word was that Blackwater would lose their security contract and that those responsible for wrongful deaths in Iraq would be prosecuted in the U.S. or in Iraq.  But the State Department has renewed its contract with Blackwater and no one — except the Iraqi people — has paid a price.  Read Risen here.  EH

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