Status Updates From A Problem from Hell: Americ...

Possibly the single greatest insult to Raphael Lemkin's legacy imaginable, using his biography and words as a launchpad for ahistoric imperialist forever war consent manufacturing. Well-tailored drivel with the glare of omissions hitting so sharply, my eyes can barely focus on the page.

I wished to be an informed hater, but I was not prepared for how wretched and insidious this book was going to be. Hope you're real proud of the impacts our "War on Terror" has had and the course of your righteous Zionist crusade against The Global Islamist Threat, Sammy. It is not a cautionary tale when she became a massively wealthy international ambassador, but good fuckin lord. Our parents need brain transplants.

"If you help us justify our invasion of Iraq to bleeding heart know-nothing liberals, we'll let you become a UN ambassador when we're able to." and the rest, as they say, was herstory.

Was she.... actually-actually a CIA "liberal academic-turned-ambassador"??? I can see this being convincing in 2002 with what the average American could've reasonably been expected to know about the world with all the ideological blinders up, um, but I do not think that his has remained convincing in 2025 and it reads like... an asset. Like, actually. The Qur'an fearmonger quoting is mmmmmmmaybe a bit heavy handed

This... is why boomer neoliberals are who they are. This is the backbone of their ideology w/ the passage of time having weathered away any flesh. Terrifying. A compassionate Western chauvinist argument for Team America: World Police in 2002(!) ignoring all Cold War coups/"interventions"/genocides other than that of the Khmer Rouge. Ngl there's worthwhile stuff here, but the deliberate scope limitations are damning.

Difficult to convey how incredibly dark this is to read in retrospect with what we watched these "progressive" frauds justify, how they conducted themselves, and the specific arguments they have echoed from history's most repulsive pasts. Class interests are really something. Western chauvinism is really something. Also, interesting omissions of all covert US actions and influences/fallouts from its "perspective."