Oct. 25 Outlook India:
"Bush or Kerry:
Who is Better
for India?"
Who, indeed.
Anyhow, when I went to
the mag's site to find
that image, I also
discovered an interesting
piece by Howard Zinn:
Our War on Terrorism
"I am calling it 'our' war on terrorism because I want to distinguish it from Bush's war on terrorism, and from Sharon's, and from Putin's. What their wars have in common is that they are based on an enormous deception: persuading the people of their countries that you can deal with terrorism by war. These rulers say you can end our fear of terrorism -- of sudden, deadly, vicious attacks, a fear new to Americans -- by drawing an enormous circle around an area of the world where terrorists come from (Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya) or can be claimed to be connected with (Iraq), and by sending in tanks and planes to bomb and terrorize whoever lives within that circle.
"Since war is itself the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory. Is it strange, or normal, that no major political figure has pointed this out?"
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