After the war
Howard Zinn is the co-author, with Anthony Arnove, of Voices of a People’s History of the United States and recently posted After The War, an article well worth reading, on The Progressive (and quickly reposted elsewhere). Here’s a short excerpt:
I don’t believe that our government will be able to do once more what it did after Vietnam—prepare the population for still another plunge into violence and dishonor. It seems to me that when the war in Iraq ends, and the war syndrome heals, that there will be a great opportunity to make that healing permanent.
My hope is that the memory of death and disgrace will be so intense that the people of the United States will be able to listen to a message that the rest of the world, sobered by wars without end, can also understand: that war itself is the enemy of the human race.
