Zinn on artists and war

[rhisiart at mail.earthlink.net]

there's a west indian saying, "The higher a man climbs, the more you can 
see the red of his ass."

which, loosely translated, means:
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.  Great men 
are

    always bad men."

         -- 150 years ago by the British statesman, Lord Acton;

                     most people leave out the last sentence

At 02:29 PM 2/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>Interview with Zinn on Iraq war and the role of artists: See
>
>http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15110
>
>Omaha Weekly Reader:
>
>[snip]
>
>One of the most striking points of the speech was the quote of the Trojan 
>queen Hecuba when asked  what war looks like: Like the backside of a 
>baboon. When the  baboon is up in a tree, with its hind end facing us, 
>there is the face of war exactly: scarlet, scaly, glazed, framed in a 
>clotted, filthy wig.  You said if enough Americans could see that then the 
>war in Iraq  might not take place. How can you make that point to the 
>average  American who hasn't gone to war, or even been alive during a 
>full   ground assault war?
>[snip]
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