The old way of thinking.

• Position: Distilled Zinn - Viewpoint essay - Brief article

November 2001

We are at war, our leaders said. And I thought: They have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from the history of the twentieth century, from a hundred years of retaliation, vengeance, war, a hundred years of terrorism and counterterrorism, of violence met with violence in an unending cycle of stupidity.... It is an old way of thinking, and we need new ways.... War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times. Yes, let's find the perpetrators of the awful acts of September 11. But we...