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Guernica
It is the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Guernica and Poppysmatus has drawn my attention to Joseph A. Palermo’s blog post at the Huffington Post:
In his latest book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress, the historian Howard Zinn writes: “If we want to break the addiction [to war] we need to teach history, because when you look at the history of wars, you see how war corrupts everyone involved, how the so-called good side behaves like the bad side, and how this has been true from the Peloponnesian War all the way to our own time.” Few events illustrate Zinn’s point more graphically than the bombing of the small Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, which took place 70 years ago today.
As Palermo’s post reminds us, when Colin Powell made his now infamous presentation to the United Nations, the one in which he showed the spurious evidence in favor of our invasion of Iraq, our government demanded that the U.N.’s reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica painting be draped.
So it goes…
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