Analyzing Cartelism versus Nationalism in Zinn

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The paper discusses how the element of national patriotism in a national identity is lost when cartels in the American government create wars that work in their self-interest. The writer proposes that Howard Zinn carefully understands the nature of government, and defies the sense of outward and superficial patriotism that is driving a corporate war in Iraq. The writer argues that the soldiers in the Iraq War are not fighting for their country, but are being lured into a war that serves a select elite few in governmental cartels, especially those relating to oil.

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"This political and governmental study will contrast two articles by Howard Zinn and Elie Wiesel. In this manner, Wiesel offers an ethnocentric view of American national identity, which overlooks the atrocities caused by cartelism. In essence, Howard Zinn gives a more empirical historical, economic, and governmental to detail the greater truth of American cartelism over the democratic principles that Wiesel defines through a nationalized idealization of America today. The basis of Zinn's article reflects on the notion of `cartels', which are defined a group of countries or companies that rule a nation by controlling prices on goods that are both imported and exported. The problem in America, Zinn argues, is that dying (in war) for one's country is different that dying for the government: Those who died in this war did not die for their country."

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