Memo to Obama, McCain: No one wins in a war (Howard Zinn)

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Memo to Obama, McCain: No one wins in a war

July 17, 2008

BARACK OBAMA and John McCain continue to argue about war. McCain says to keep the troops in Iraq until we "win" and supports sending more troops to Afghanistan. Obama says to withdraw some (not all) troops from Iraq and send them to fight and "win" in Afghanistan.

For someone like myself, who fought in World War II, and since then has protested against war, I must ask: Have our political leaders gone mad? Have they learned nothing from recent history? Have they not learned that no one "wins" in a war, but that hundreds of thousands of humans die, most of them civilians, many of them children?

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We should be asking the presidential candidates: Is our war in Afghanistan ending terrorism, or provoking it? And is not war itself terrorism?

Howard Zinn is author of "A People's History of the United States."
more at:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2008/07/17/memo_to_obama_mccain_no_one_wins_in_a_war/

[jody]

1. "No one wins in a war"! Tell that to native-Americans. n/t

[elocs]

2. If Obama were to adopt Zinn's philosophy hook, line, and sinker,

exactly how would that help him to win the election? That is the point, right? Winning the election? I would much rather be involved with any kind of war with a President Obama than a President McCain.