Status Updates From La historia indígena de Est...

This is a tough read, but it needs to be read.

“… in continuing to find or invent enemies across the globe, expand what is already the largest military force in the world, and add to an elaborate global network of military bases, all in the name of national or global ‘security,’ does not the United States today resemble Mrs. Winchester constantly trying to foil her ghosts?”

“..the legacy of settler colonialism can be seen in the endless wars [..], the trillions spent on [military] instead of social services and quality public education; the cross profits of corporations, each of which has greater resources and funds than more than half the countries in the world yet pay minimal taxes and provide few jobs for US citizens..”

Cultural militarization in then United States is scary dystopian when you think about it hard enough

“The purpose of this expulsion was the create a US military base on one of the Chagossian islands, Diego Garcia. As if being rounded up and removed from their homelands in the name of global security were not cruel enough, [Chagossuans] had to watch [..] their pet dogs into sealed sheds where they were gassed and burned.”

“Prior to 2001, Kaplan rightly observes, the US Army’s Special Operations Command had been carrying out maneuvers since the 1980s in ‘170 countries per year […]”

“To be sure, the problem for the American military was less [Islamic] fundamentalism than anarchy. The War on Terrorism was really about taking the frontier.” [Kaplan]

“US militarism and imperialism [exploded] when the election of George W. Bush turned over control of US foreign policy to a long-gestating neoconservative and warmongering faction [..]. Their subsequent eight years of political control included two major military invasions and hundreds of small wars employing US Special Forces around the globe.”

I just finished the introduction and want to sit on it for a bit and then continue reading. The atrocity that was committed to the Native Americans was just indescribable. I would like to read after this a book told from an actual Native American.