"The weeks after the Fallujah killings, Blackwater announced plans to build a massive new facility-a twenty-eight-thousand-square-foot-administrative building-on its Moyock property for its operations" (Scahill, 151)
Because of their "success" at Fallujah, Blackwater begins to expand. This raises the question of how this organization measures triumph. Furthermore, do the people paying for this force think that this is successful? The theme of secrecy and appearance vs. reality is really evident here, as all of this is going on without the majority of world forces having any knowledge of it. Furthermore, they seem to be operating on a basis of profit>morals and no one is questioning it until now.
The fact that this organization is able to take their increasing success through immoral means and turn it into a healthy profit without anyone knowing or questioning it is appalling. Anyone who has any hope at stopping it has their morals circumvented by a large paycheck, and I think that is one of the true messages Scahill is trying to put across.
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