If a customer is disappointed by the product delivered by a private business, he will not use the services of this business in the future. This should be also the case of US government and Blackwater.

Namely because Blackwater as a security service which already had a contract with US government,  clearly disappointed this "customer" by killing 17 Iraqis in 2007 in Baghdad. Blackwater had to protect the US government officials in Iraq and not to kill innocent people. The killing of these innocent people by the Blackwater did not help US, clearly. In opposite it draw hostility to all what is American in a country, where the relationship to US was- understandably- very restrained. 

Now a company called Xe-which was formerly known as Blackwater- is applying for the billion-dollar police-training contract in Afghanistan. Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin is proposing to Pentagon to bar Xe from applying for the contract citing allegations of misconduct against the firm in other contract in Afghanistan. He is right- Pentagon should not deal with Blackwater/Xe, although the main reason for barring it from the application process should be the experience which the US government had with this company in Iraq.

Analogically- if a baker sells you bread with a stone in it and you loose your teeth because of it- you will think twice to go into the same store again. Probably you will not buy your next bread there although the bakery would be now called as cafeteria or would open an affiliate store under some other exotic name. That is also the reason why US government should not risk another image blow - this time in Afghanistan- by contracting Blackwater running under the name Xe.  Business as usual.

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