Evaluate the war on terrorism in America in chapter 25 of A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.

George W. Bush
Jr. launched a "war on terrorism" after the attacks against the United States on
September 11, 2001. In chapter 25,(1922€“2010) writes about the futility of Bush's
war.

One of Zinn's criticisms of the "war on terrorism" is that it
buttresses America's already bloated military-industrial complex. Both Republicans and
Democrats, Zinn notes, are happy to spend huge amounts of money on weapons, and 9/11 was a
justification to increase defense budgets even further. Zinn argues that American money would be
better spent helping people around the globe. He argues that the US could save millions of lives
globally by spending more to fight tuberculosis; America could achieve this by using only a
small fraction of the hundreds of billions it spends on defense.

Zinn argues
that the "war on terrorism" cannot be won. He provides many examples for this view:
Britain's experience in Northern Ireland, Israel's occupation of Palestine, and President Bill
Clinton's response to the bombing of American embassies in Africa in 1998. Zinn points out that
Bush even indirectly admitted the futility of American policy in his State of the Union address
in 2002.

Zinn forcefully argues that America's killing of innocent people in
Afghanistan is not a logical or humane response to 9/11. Although America's invasion of Iraq is
not in chapter 25, Zinn was a vocal critic of that war, too.