posted 21 February 2004 01:09 PM
Historian Howard Zinn was a bomb aimer in the USAF during WWII, and is the author of A People's History of the United States.
quote:And yes, we come back to the ultimate betrayal, the betrayal of the young, sent to war with grandiose promises and lying words about freedom and democracy, about duty and patriotism. We are not historically literate enough to remember that these promises, those lies, started far back in the country's past.
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posted 21 February 2004 01:19 PM
quote:We are not historically literate enough to remember that these promises, those lies, started far back in the country's past.
Excellent article! Dubya is continuing in a long tradition. It's very annoying to hear critics (who I agree with on Iraq) talk as if every other military escapade was "honourable" and that this is the anomaly.
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posted 21 February 2004 01:29 PM
Yup. Those who get rich by war make sure that there are lots of them.
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posted 21 February 2004 01:09 PM
