Memo to Obama & McCain from Howard Zinn

Professor Howard Zinn, author of "SNCC: The New Abolitionists” and “A People’s History of the United States,” has written an open memo in the Boston Globe to Barack Obama and John McCain, warning each about expanding the war in Afghanistan.

The resurgence of fighting in Afghanistan is a good moment to reflect on the beginning of US involvement there. There should be sobering thoughts to those who say that attacking Iraq was wrong, but attacking Afghanistan was right.

Cost of War

The next time you are told that your school can’t afford computers for every student, you’ll know the reason why. According to Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard public finance professor Linda Bilmes, the total cost of the Iraq War will be over $3 trillion. That's enough to buy a new Toyota Prius for every household in America or enough MacBooks for a bridge to the moon 2 MacBooks wide.