The Passion of Chelsea Manning Quotes

“The fantasy of clean warfare is deeply cherished by so much of the Western center-left, the great dream that military violence can be surgical, humanitarian, therapeutic, an instrument of human rights. This has rarely, if ever, proven to be the case.”
― Chase Madar, The Passion of Chelsea Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History

“Villains have suppressed some important piece of knowledge and this is causing grave harm; the protagonist after many struggles retrieves the intelligence, brings it to light, and the system rights itself in the nick of time, often thanks to the press. The plot is pure escapist fantasy, and a conservative one at that as it reaffirms faith in the normal political system and its institutions, whose essential goodness always wins out over some "abuse" or "rogue element.”
― Chase Madar, The Passion of Chelsea Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History