You Can\'t Be Neutral on a Moving Train_ .epub

You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train Howard Zinn You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train A Personal History of Our Times ISBN 978-0-8070-7127-4 (paper) 1. Zinn, Howard, [data]. 2. Historians—United States—Biography. 3. United States—History— 1945– —Philosophy. I. Title. E175.5Z25A3 1994 973'.07202—dc20 94-8000 war was barely over when the United States intervened in Vietnam, with a half million troops and the most deadly bombing campaign in world history. I write here about my involvement in the movement against that war. Since then, our government has found reasons to bomb Panama, and Iraq, and Yugoslavia. We have become addicted to war. Today the movie screens are filled with images of military heroism, and my generation is hailed as “the greatest generation.” In such films as Band of Brothers, Windtalkers, Saving Private Ryan, Memphis Belle, and others, World War II is being brought back to make us feel good about war. My refusal to justify war has a simple logic. War in our time inevitably means the indiscriminate killing of large numbers of innocent people (no matter what claims are made by confident government ......