Dirty Wars: the World is a Battlefield
araneet says:
Maybe the single best thing you can read about US foreign policy (as if I would know), but also kind of a chore. It's longer than a mofo, well researched and highly polished. It must have been a good half a decade in the making and required a whole staff of people to put together. To its credit, it's about as much of a page turner as it could be for what it set out to do. Making it any more entertaining would have involved jettisoning some of the deep reporting and analysis.Once I f...inally finished it, I pulled up the movie version on Netflix, thinking it would be a much more succinct version of the same thing and maybe even entertaining. I was wrong. It is, in fact, succinct, running maybe 90 min-long, but it's boring as shit... to the point where I wonder how it got nominated for an Academy Award. Maybe it was a political thing? I heard very few documentary films are even in the running in the first place, and I wonder if the people who vote watch them all.
alishah786 says:
I am having trouble getting past the author's political agenda which is so blantantly presented within the first 50 pages. For example, he uses the term "neocon" to emphasize his dislike for Bush appointees so often that it destroys any attempt to present a balanced, non-partisan discussion. I will get through this book, but it sure would be a lot better if the author left opinions to the reader. After completing the book, I stand by my original statement. It's a shame the author ruins the story with his personal opinions.MoreLess
Maybe the single best thing you can read about US foreign policy (as if I would know), but also kind of a chore. It's longer than a mofo, well researched and highly polished. It must have been a good half a decade in the making and required a whole staff of people to put together. To its credit, it's about as much of a page turner as it could be for what it set out to do. Making it any more entertaining would have involved jettisoning some of the deep reporting and analysis.Once I f...inally finished it, I pulled up the movie version on Netflix, thinking it would be a much more succinct version of the same thing and maybe even entertaining. I was wrong. It is, in fact, succinct, running maybe 90 min-long, but it's boring as shit... to the point where I wonder how it got nominated for an Academy Award. Maybe it was a political thing? I heard very few documentary films are even in the running in the first place, and I wonder if the people who vote watch them all.
alishah786 says:
I am having trouble getting past the author's political agenda which is so blantantly presented within the first 50 pages. For example, he uses the term "neocon" to emphasize his dislike for Bush appointees so often that it destroys any attempt to present a balanced, non-partisan discussion. I will get through this book, but it sure would be a lot better if the author left opinions to the reader. After completing the book, I stand by my original statement. It's a shame the author ruins the story with his personal opinions.MoreLess
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arkybarky 4 years ago
Does a good job of describing the history n activities of the immoral n unethical people who dedicated decades of "public service" to overthrowing our Constitution ,laws n ideals. However it fails completely when it comes to the linch pin of the neo CONs strategy: the 9/11 "attacks", subscribing without research or comment to the Original Conspiracy. Theory and cartoon story (and physics) of 19 supposedly Muslim persons ,all conscripted by the CIA, who "defeated" the world's greatest superpower n bombed the world's most secure building , which conveniently"forgot" to use it missile defense against a plane clearly heading on a collision course,violating its secure air space without the required top security signals or any signals at all and then executing a nearly impossible high speed impact on the Accounting Department n Navy Intelligence, "fortunately" completely missing any high level officials.Write Review:
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