After all this time, Condi Rice has discovered she has a lacuna, and she wants it filled.
You'd think she would have known about it sooner.
In case you didn't already know, the lacuna of which she speaks is the gap, or hole, in the law that resulted in no clear way to prosecute the badly behaving Blackwater mercenaries in Iraq. Of course, before this war, America didn't use mercenaries much, so it wasn't a problem. Now Congress will have to define in a law what to do when our mercenaries get trigger-happy and start shooting civilians without provocation. While they're at it, outlawing the use of mercenaries altogether might be a good plan.
