muffmacguff 's review for:

Standard Operating Procedure by Philip Gourevitch

4.0

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So the author chose not to include the photographs themselves in the text, and explains his rationale at the very end. It's honestly understandable, but it also means that when the photographs are discussed -which is often - Gourevitch describes them, focusing on the details he finds most notable. This ultimately takes away from some of what these photographs mean and what the book has to say about them; they reflect us, both as viewers and as Americans, and to read Gourevitch's descriptions of them is to see only a reflection of him.
The book is otherwise extremely thorough, and we never should have been in Iraq, and war either leads inevitably to horrific human rights abuses or we just have no interest in figuring out how to do it without those abuses.
Fuck George W. Bush, that man was a bloodthirsty monster.