Terrorism and War
Recently I read a book title Terrorism and War, written by Howard Zinn. ... ” He explains that you go to war because you want to do something fast. ... Zinn states that it is not right to respond to terrorism by terrorizing other people. It will not help stop terrorism. ... It was before 1990 when we did not have a presence in Saudi Arabia, made war on Iraq, and sanctions against them. ... It has been since World War II that the U. ... Zinn goes on to say that terrorism is an international phenomenon. American citizens are no the only victims of terrorism. We have to think about our policies, and ask what we should change to stop terrorism. ... They discovered after the Gulf War that 93 percent of the bombs turned out not to be so-called smart bombs and that the “smart” bombs often missed their targets. The United States dropped 88,500 tons of bombs on Iraq during the forty-three days of war, with the goal of “disabling Iraqi society at large. ... war in Afghanistan” because a sister paper had been receiving complaints. ... It has not always been a victorious history, in that antiwar movements have only very rarely succeeded in having an effect on the makers of war, but we certainly have had internal movements against war from the American Revolution to today. ... No one even asked why the Maine was in Cuba, but this becomes a cause of a short war which happened so quickly there wasn’t time for an antiwar movement. By the time World War I came around there, was a very substantial movement against the war despite the government’s repression. Even during World War II, we was people spoke out against the war. About six thousand Americans went to jail for refusing to fight in World War II. World War II still remains the “good war,” despite the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the revelation that we caused perhaps a hundred thousand casualties in the bombing of Dresden, and that fact that we’d engaged in the ruthless bombing of civilians.