Oh, Howard, you old softy...

“But terrorism has supplanted communism as an attempt to get people to do things against their own interests, to do things that will send their own young people to war, to do things that will cause the depletion of the country’s wealth for the purposes of war and for the enrichment of the super-rich. It doesn't take much thought about terrorism to realize that when somebody talks about a war on terrorism, they're dealing with a contradiction in terms. How can you make war on terrorism, if war itself is terrorism? Because you respond to terrorism with terrorism, and you multiply the terrorism in the world.”

good speech by Howard Zinn in the Progressive—though poorly transcribed...

http://progressive.org/mag_zinn1006?page=0%2C0