It's all well and good to see someone stand up to Congress and it's all a nice fantasy to see someone say "I can be trusted, because I'm good, but you're corrupted with politics." But, really, do you trust Tony Stark?

And then on top of that? One of the main arguments Tony makes against Congress to be able to keep his suits is "we're fine, America's safe" and "I have successfully privatized world peace". All of the racist, Western imperialistic implications of a white Western, American man saying that he successfully privatized world peace. Like...really.

You would have to fill up a whole book series to talk about the ugliness of that and yet, like you said, within the movie, it's considered a heroic triumph. What in all the world.