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| | Howard Zinn: After the War | The Progressive |
 | | When you look at the endless series of wars of this century you do not find a public demanding war, but rather resisting it, until citizens are bombarded with exhortations that appeal, not to a killer instinct, but to a desire to do good, to spread democracy or liberty or overthrow a tyrant. |
 | | In the Second World War, there was indeed a strong moral imperative, which still resonates among most people in this country and which maintains the reputation of World War II as “the good war.” There was a need to defeat the monstrosity of fascism. |
 | | Terrorism became the justification for war, but war is itself terrorism, breeding rage and hate, as we are seeing now. |
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