This was from the Tim Weiner book Legacy of Ashes, which actually isn’t very good.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    I had to read Legacy of Ashes for one of my college courses

    At the time, it did a decent enough job of convincing me the CIA was bad

    But yeah, it’s not a very good book in retrospect

    Very much a “America is good, but the CIA is bad and makes America worse” type of thing

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      I think that’s called a ‘limited hangout’. Admit to things you can’t deny but obscure the intentions and severity. I also just don’t like his writing style.

      I really want to read Aaron Good’s American Exception soon.