Shame on Zinn

Howard Zinn's "Our War on Terrorism" (November issue) is a recipe for despair.

His claim that "no major political figure has pointed out [that] a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory" is transparently false. While David Cobb, the Green Party's candidate this year, may not be a major political figure, Ralph Nader most certainly is.

Zinn also referred to the Democratic Party as the opposition party. Pretending that it is, even potentially, an opposition party is a morass in which large parts of what passes for the left in America has allowed itself to be trapped for generations.

Shame on Howard Zinn.

Brett Portman

U.S. Greens Abroad

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

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