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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MSI who wrote (266010)	6/21/2002 5:31:06 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

HOWARD ZINN: WITNESS TO TRUTH MSI, Zinn's excellent history of the U.S.: amazon.com """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Re: "No", says Zinn, "he was very cordial, and wanted to hear what I had to say about why things would have worked out had wars not taken place." I thought that was an interesting and broad-minded general. One does not get to be a 4-star general by being broad-minded. One gets there by being ruthless, and these days, political. The general was most likely trying to do intel work, trying to read Zinn's mind in order to be able to get the Office of Strategic Influence and the Rendon Group to counter-act Zinn's upcoming discussion in the media and in personal presentations. No general is going to be interviewing Zinn with an eye toward being convinced that war is the wrong solution or that there are better alternatives. At least not "on the record" as this brass-hat was. To do otherwise would be to ruin one's career with the label of traitor to the cause. Re: The thing about Zinn is when you see him in an interview, he's the least radical individual imaginable. Though labeled a radical, in fact some of his de-mythologized history of the U.S. has become mainstream. Today, schools teach that Columbus coming to America was a mixed blessing and a downright disaster for the indigenous peoples here. This was not the case when I went to school in the '50's and '60's. Back then we got the Columbus as hero myth. His penchant for enslavement and exploitation just didn't happen, according to the texts of the time. Zinn only appears radical because he's willing to tell the truth in a culture that loves to lie. -Ray