Posted on 05/26/2017 7:53:43 AM PDT by Jack Black
....American War is both a story of possible futures and of the present. “El Akkad has fashioned a surprisingly powerful novel — one that creates as haunting a post-apocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy did in The Road, and as devastating a look at the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America,” wrote Michiko Kakutani in his review for the New York Times.
Yet, there is little that occurs in El Akkad’s novel that is not happening on the globe right now — indiscriminate drone strikes, mass exoduses of climate refugees, perpetual civil war. We do not need to look 60 years ahead of ourselves to the era in which American War takes place to witness El Akkad’s vision.
Egyptian-born, Qatar-raised, a Canadian citizen living in the United States — El Akkad’s is a background that spells outsider, compounded by his years working as a globe-trotting reporter for the Toronto Globe and Mail. He takes the scenes he saw and the people he met covering the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, poverty in Las Vegas and global climate change — phenomena Americans either tend to overlook or think of as far away and abstract — and places them in a future context centered on North America.
American readers will likely finish the novel with a Lacanian sense of the Real as Slavoj Žižek has described it: the inescapable reality beneath our country’s exceptionalist subterfuge. A broader reading sees American War as an international story of how anyone of us, subjected to enough injustice, can be transformed into one of the terrorists we see on the news.
(Excerpt) Read more at indypendent.org ...
That's where I stopped reading and checked out.
Same here. Nothing but another rancid dose of globalist pap.
Sadly, I can't remember the name of that book. Perhaps someone else will remember it.
Here's Matt's book:
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Lately I've ordered this two book series on the drug war that got great reviews.
Just reading the article I’m seeing that the author hates President Trump, he supports global warming hysteria, and he discounts the feelings and values of conservative Americans when he thinks we’d go to war over petroleum products but not over fundamental liberties.
Screw him, I won’t be buying his book.
And, there’s this one:
The Democrats’ Second Secession & America’s New Civil War
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3555422/posts
I'm familir with the Indy, less so with Peter Rugh, not at all with Omar El Akkad. Hadn't previously noted much regarding the novel, I doubt it'll grab the critical acclaim of, say Enemies, Foreign and Domestic.
I'm sure others on the list will be interested.
Indeed I was. Thanks for the ping.
This kind of stuff may read like a typical dystopia, but in reality, it's what they want to see happen. They genuinely desire that America is brought down. Then they want to be able to say "I told you so."
It's like the end of that "climate change" movie The Day After Tomorrow where the world freezes. In the end, with the surviving American population having escaped to Mexico, the Vice President has to apologize to the world for not having done enough to stop it.
Lefties hunger for this to happen in real life.
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