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Article: The politics of war. (Howard Zinn, history professor) (Interview)
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- The Humanist
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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On the second anniversory of the Persian Gulf crisis, we consider the specter of imperialism that haunts our democracy
JACK McENANY: Professor Zinn, recurrent in your book, A People's History of the United States, are examples of working, class America fighting wars that it had no personal stake in. Was this true of the Gulf War?
HOWARD ZINN: Oh, yes, the Gulf War fits that pattern. War seldom, if ever, has a particular or personal stake in it for the people who do the fighting - the working classes. In fact, most soldiers' only stake in war is that their lives are in danger and they will be the ones who suffer the casualties. It's an old story and, ...