Anyone else think Howard Zinn is a...

Deluded blowhard?

no.

Originally posted by coquette
no.

Yes, hes an asshat. Next question.

Originally posted by coquette
no.

Do you even know who he is?

I figure if hoh don't like him, he must be a nice guy. 😛

Originally posted by Very Rusty
I figure if hoh don't like him, he must be a nice guy. 😛

I was thinking more like, it takes one to know one. But you might be right too.

Originally posted by Ice Cold
I was thinking more like, it takes one to know one. But you might be right too.

Howard Zinn, the author of the best seller "A People's History of the United States", is a historian, political scientist and social activist well-known for his involvement in progressive causes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn

World War II

Zinn eagerly joined the Army Air Force during World War II to fight fascism, and he bombed targets in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.[14] Zinn's anti-war stance was, in part, informed by his own experiences in the military. In April, 1945, he participated in one of the first military uses of napalm, which took place in Royan, France.[15]
2nd Lieut. Howard Zinn, bombardier, Army Air Force in England, 1945.

The bombings were aimed at German soldiers who were, in Zinn's words, hiding and waiting out the closing days of the war. The attacks killed not only the German soldiers but also French civilians, facts Zinn uncovered nine years after the bombings when he visited Royan to examine documents and interview residents. In his books, The Politics of History and The Zinn Reader, he described how the bombing was ordered at the war's end by decision-makers most probably motivated by the desire for career advancement rather than for legitimate military objectives.

Zinn said his experience as a bombardier, combined with his research into the reasons for and effects of the bombing of Royan, sensitized him to the ethical dilemmas faced by G.I.s during wartime.[16] Zinn questioned the justifications for military operations inflicting civilian casualties in the Allied bombing of cities such as Dresden, Royan, Tokyo, and Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II, Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam, and Baghdad during the U.S. war in Iraq. In his pamphlet "Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence", Zinn laid out the case against targeting civilians.[17]

Originally posted by zeeblebot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn

World War II

Zinn eagerly joined the Army Air Force during World War II to fight fascism, and he bombed targets in Berlin, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.[14] Zinn's anti-war stance was, in part, informed by his own experiences in the military. In April, 1945, he participated in one of the first military uses of n ...[text shortened]... "Hiroshima: Breaking the Silence", Zinn laid out the case against targeting civilians.[17]

answered here Thread 122496 and here Thread 122514.

Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
Do you even know who he is?

yes.

He's dead now.

Originally posted by cheshirecatstevens
He's dead now.

Must've read this thread 😕

May he R.I.P.

Originally posted by Hand of Hecate
Deluded blowhard?

No.

Originally posted by cheshirecatstevens
He's dead now.

Sweet! That's worth $20 in my celebrity dead pool and leaves a spot open for Gary Coleman.

Seriously, somebody call the waaaahmbulance. The man was so far left that he could hardly be considered living as it was. While funeral arrangements have yet to be anounced, my inside source tells me that he'll be cremated and the ceremony will consist of a small series of circus tent acts. These will include all the old standby performances, such as, acrobats, sword swallowing, bearded ladies, Nixon impersonators, jetpacked penguins, tigers and flaming hoops of fire. The whole spectacle will conclude with Zinn's ashes being loaded into a cannon and shot into the audience.