b. traven In June 1996 Kurt Vonnegut, the author of Slaughterhouse Five and other novels, wrote the following to a friend: Politics? I will vote Democratic because that is the most humane of the two parties, but not by much. The Clintons are shallow, opportunistic, Yuppies but they are the only game in town. Doesn’t…
W.J. Astore There you go again, President Obama, echoing a line delivered by that consummate actor, Ronald Reagan. Yes, we’re bombing Iraq again, in the name of humanitarianism. This time, we’re only getting the “bad” Iraqis, so it’s OK. Right? The only “humanitarian” bombing I’ve ever heard of is in fiction; specifically, in Slaughter-House Five,…
W.J. Astore I finally had a chance to read Kurt Vonnegut’s classic book, Slaughter-House Five, based upon his experiences in World War II as a POW who survived the firebombing of Dresden in 1945. I grew up on war stories featuring air raids by the German Luftwaffe as well as the Allied combined bombing offensive…
The Contrary Perspective 