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Title: Terrorism and War by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove ISBN: 1-58322-493-9 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Can I get a Table Dance?
Comment: The wide blue yonder
Zinn dissents in black and white
Is it read, or red?
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly relevant to current times !
Comment: Howard Zinn puts forth two most important points in this book. Firstly, governments lie. Secondly, war is another form of terrorism. In these days of mass hysteria about terrorism and cries for war, these points should be drilled in the minds of people who blindly believe in what the government is telling them to achieve their war objectives for financial gains. He puts to rest the argument that "We are a peaceful nation" as stated by George W. Bush, by bringing forth various example showing that our government has been the aggressor in several conflicts in this century. History should not be forgotten as we are once again repeating the terrible mistakes we have made in the past.
He questions the need for the US to become a military superpower with over $300 billion annual military budget when for a small fraction of this money, millions of people dying of diseases throughout the world could be saved.
Indeed, in these days of misplaced patriotism, people like Zinn are called traitors when in fact, it should be people like Zinn who have defined democracy by questioning the government and questioning the true motives of those in power. Governments lie, and lie a lot for personal gains.
Rating: 3
Summary: Namby-Pamby In Its Approach
Comment: Zinn defends the terrorists against certain accusations. For instance, he says that terrorists have demands that we should consider meeting and that terrorists are not like insane people who simply go berserk on a killing spree.
Zinn thus creates a false dichotomy between the rational terrorist who would stop if only you would go far enough in meeting his demands, and the crazy person.
But a moments reflection would reveal that terrorists can have political motives and be crazy too. The Nazis for instance.
The DC Sniper who was attacking people this year discussed with a friend in Washington state how unjust US foreign policy was. The DC Sniper claimed that what Al Qaeda did should have been done a long time ago. The DC Sniper travelled to the only synagogue in Tacoma, Washington and shot at it.
Yet the DC sniper was also shooting some people for no reason at all. To say that if one has some political beliefs about injustice then one cannot be killing people at random in an insane manner is contrary to common sense. What about the Manson Family who believed that they were precipitating a race war.
As mentioned, the Nazis were political, and crazy too.
That is why I say that Zinn is namby-pamby. He assumes the best in other people instead of the worst. But in the case of 9-11 is his namby-pamby view of the pure motives of Al Qaeda likely to result in a proper response to the tragedy?
I doubt it. Zinn's response is more likely to result in Neville Chamberlain-like "peace in our time" declarations accompanied by a sacrifice of modern-day Czechoslovakias.
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Title: A People's History of the United States : 1492-Present by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0060528370 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties by Nancy Chang, Howard Zinn, Center for Constitutional Rights ISBN: 1583224947 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Twentieth Century : A People's History by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0060530340 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: 9-11 by Noam Chomsky ISBN: 1583224890 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train : A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0807071277 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 05 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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