This morning Rupert Murdoch’s Neocon News Network (NNN)interviewed a U.S. Army captain who was wounded in Iraq, recovered, went back, and then wrote a book about his experience. His explanation of why he was wounded by a roadside bomb was that, after the U.S. military bombed the town he was in into the stone age, he became “the new sheriff in town.” The people of the Iraqi town immediately went to work trying to resurrect their civilization by creating all sorts of impromptu markets, which the captain called “black markets.” “I just couldn’t allow black markets to exist in my … Continue reading I Just Couldn’t Have a Black Market in My Sector