Based on the following excerpt, what is likely the author’s purpose for writing? What…

Based on the following excerpt, what is likely the author’s purpose for writing?
What struck me as I began to study history was how nationalist fervor-inculcated from childhood on by pledges of alleglance, national anthems, flags waving and rhetoric blowing – ?permeated the educational systems of all countries, including our own. I wonder now how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our minds, and thought of afl children everywhere as our own. Then we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our time, are always wars against children, indeed our children.
-Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, HarperCollins
to entertain the reader by pointing out America’s exaggerated patriotism
to convince the reader that war is wrong
to inform readers of high child mortality rates in foreign countries
to convince the reader that national pride can have terrible results