24-08-2022, 07:24 PM
Finished this today; had to keep stopping when i got too angry/sad/incredulous at human stupidity so it took a while. But well worth reading, & I'd recommend it - definitely an eye opener.
I'd been under the impression that JFK & Jimmy Carter were relatively decent presidents; not so much it seems.
“I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, & thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children.”
Howard Zinn, A people's history of the United States.
I'd been under the impression that JFK & Jimmy Carter were relatively decent presidents; not so much it seems.
“I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, & thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children.”
Howard Zinn, A people's history of the United States.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)