The former Ambassador offers constructive assessment. Is Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States" taught in American schools -- for a more balanced treatment of US history?
They need to work to break the link between patriotism, love of country, and war crimes.
This really needs to be said of most countries, not only those of the Balkans. For the Great Powers a war crime is often reduced to a solitary, misguided private from a backwoods state, an isolated atrocity.
Is Howard Zinn's "People's History of the United States" taught in American schools -- for a more balanced treatment of US history?
You obviously have no connection with American schools. Many schools do use Zinn's book (for which he won the Eugene Debs award--maybe he'll get one named for Che Guevara next)--the book that covers Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Japanese internments each more often than it does Pearl Harbor; the one that mentions slavery over 50 times, socialism & communism over 40 times without mentioning free enterprise or the Democrat or Republican parties; that mentions Eugene Debs (ah, there it is!) more than George Washington and so on. Zinn's People's History is history like the People's Republics of communism were republics. It is also the history most taught in our American school systems.