PDA

View Full Version : Howard Zinn on war.




RonPaulFTFW
02-04-2008, 10:56 AM
Thus, soldiers are led to believe that we are fighting for our country when in fact they are fighting for the government — an artificial entity different from the people of the country — and indeed are following policies dangerous to its own people.


http://francoistremblay.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/howard-zinn-on-war/


Five: Since the ratio of civilian deaths to military deaths in war has risen sharply with each subsequent war of the past century (10% civilian deaths in World War I, 50% in World War II, 70% in Vietnam, 80-90% in Afghanistan and Iraq) and since a significant percentage of these civilians are children, then war is inevitably a war against children