Excellent Point on Unreliable Narrator

[Michael Bailey]

Blood Meridian seemed like a pretty good factual introduction
(disguised as fiction) to the development of US militarism...and the
Judge is like the shadow cast by this country in the world, or the
tutelary spirit of American foreign policy, or the misunderstood
Nietzsche who inspires the right wing via Triumph of the Will

or something like that

I hated the book, way too much violence, if I wanted to read about
American militarism run amok I'd more closely follow current events
and recent history

- how long has this been going on, type of thing, how many mechanical
rabbits - Arbenz, Pancho Villa, Maurice Bishop, Sukarno, Lumumba,
Papandreou, Oscar Romero, Mossadegh, the Pathet Lao, Diem, Allende,
Noriega, Aristide, Ortega, Bosch - have Americans been asked to root
against and run down; how many inoffensive, or even straight-up *nice*
people have been slaughtered by the wayside; how many bogosities such
as the Maine, the Gulf of Tonkin, the Kuwait respirator lies, the
Warren Report, the ignoring of Hans Blix, Project Northwoods,
Operation Paperclip, Phoenix, MKUltra, the travesty sometimes called
the 2000/2004 elections, have been perpetrated pursuant to the
enabling of the martial spirit over all contenders?  The Judge is all
too conjurable, and if only, if only there really were one individual
we could, like, slay and get rid of that nastiness for once and all
--  (if there were, would he look something like bin  Laden...)

but that's adopting his method --

where is the remedy for this plague of warfare, where to find the
peace that will vanquish it, subsume it, make it roll over and yawn
and stretch and fall asleep...?

That's what I want to read about!