Proud to Be An American by Greg C. Reeson
"Howard Zinn, writing recently in The Progressive, said that this Independence Day Americans '…would have done well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.' His column was an argument against the basic idea that we should consider ourselves Americans, and instead advocated an 'allegiance to the human race,' as if the two were somehow incompatible.
He described our soldiers in Iraq as 'victims…of our government's lies' and claimed that Americans suffer from 'a loss of a sense of proportion.' To support this claim, he said nationalist thinking had led us to such actions as the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in response to Pearl Harbor, and the killing of tens of thousands in the Global War on Terror in response to the deaths of 3,000 Americans in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, a clear indication of our 'loss of a sense of proportion.' The implication, of course, is that we should have been much more restrained after being attacked by a ruthless enemy, in 1941 and again in 2001. "
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