Authenticity Watch: useful idiot edition

From a fascinating-throughout piece in the NYT about Tanja Nijmeijer, a 32-year old Dutch woman who became a student radical, and went to Colombia to put her ideals into action by joining FARC. According to her diaries, she appears suitably concerned about whether they were keepin' it real:

Throughout her writings, she touched repeatedly on a theme that seemed to vex the rebels themselves: whether they stood for anything anymore, having evolved from their idealistic origins into a force that comfortably financed itself from the drug trade and survived by kidnappings, extortion and the forced recruitment of children as combatants.

“How will it be when we take power?” Ms. Nijmeijer asked in one entry. “The wives of the commanders in Ferrari Testa Rossas with breast implants eating caviar?” 

Thanks to the handcaper for the link