We love Howard Zinn in this household. We want to name our future dog Zinny. We love him because he has REALLY great hair and says REALLY smart things. Check it out.
It is a supreme irony that the "war on terrorism" has brought a higher death toll among innocent civilians than the hijackings of 9/11, which killed up to 3,000 people. The United States reacted to 9/11 by invading and bombing Afghanistan. In that operation, at least 3,000 civilians were killed, and hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes and villages, terrorized by what was supposed to be a war on terror. Bush's Iraq War, which he keeps linking to the "war on terror," has killed between 40,000 and 140,000 civilians.
More than a million civilians in Vietnam were killed by U.S. bombs, presumably by "accident." Add up all the terrorist attacks throughout the world in the twentieth century and they do not equal that awful toll.
If reacting to terrorist attacks by war is inevitably immoral, then we must look for ways other than war to end terrorism.
Oddly enough, we've never discussed naming our future dog "Bushy." Hmmm.
1 Comments:
Please tell me that you have not thought about the name "bushy" for reasons OTHER then it would be after the Bush Fam...I mean the name is a bad one!
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