Just a note on Oliver Stone. It's too bad Howard Zinn wasn't around for the consulting gig. He tells the story in much simpler terms. Below is a brief thirty minute talk on three holy wars that were not: the revolutionary war, the civil war, and WWII.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=XUBYI97cUgU&feature=endscreen The fat cats win, the working stiff loses and lots of people die most often because we the people don't have the imagination to figure out a better way. The central mistake is to be opposed to some development like British rule, slavery or fascism, and then assume the only way to fix it is war. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
