Quotes about war
war might source
You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence. Noam Chomsky
war engineering media
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'.
war lying support
The public is easily amenable to lies: the more lies there are, the greater the support for war. For instance, when the public was told that Saddam Hussein would attack the U.S., this increased support for the war.
war adventure media
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them.
war thinking people
...a very terrifying aspect of our society, and other societies, is the equanimity and the detachment with which sane, reasonable, sensible people can observe [war and human suffering]. I think that's more terrifying than the occasional Hitler ...or other that crop up - these people would not able to operate were it not for this apathy and equanimity - and therefore I think that it is in some sense the sane and reasonable and tolerant people who should share a very serious burden of guilt, that they very easily throw on the shoulders of others who seem more extreme and more violent.
war iraq invasion
The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.
war world united-states
There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.
war people sticks
It's very common for the victims to understand a system better than the people who are holding the stick.
war iraq firsts
The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.
war evil survival
The target of preventive war must have several characteristics. It must be virtually defenceless; it must be important enough to be worth the trouble; it must be possible to portray it as the ultimate evil and an imminent threat to our survival.
war fall law
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
war pakistan would-be
A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
war resistance argument
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.
war numbers analysts
A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S.
war demand accepting
In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.
war thinking world
In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
war cities occupation
In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes instantly, with approval.
war enemy reason
The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.
war people political
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
war laos secrecy
Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.
war yale administration
John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
war mean soldier
There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.
war may events
Whatever the reasons may be, I was very much affected by events of the 1930s - the Spanish Civil War, for example, though I was barely literate.
war people october
On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
war miracle nuclear
It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
war two survival
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
war years labor-force
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a decade after the Civil War and before north/south compact essentially recriminalized black life. During the Second World War there was a need for free labor so there was a freeing up of the labor force. Blacks benefitted from it.
war years america
In fact if you look at Reagan's global war on terrorism it very quickly turned into a massive terrorist war: [by us] Central America, South Africa, the Middle East, all U.S.-backed terrorism. That's one of the reasons why it disappeared from history and why the standard line is that Bush 43 declared the war on terror. Actually he just repeated what Reagan had said 20 years earlier.
war soldier clinton
We're at war with the ISIS caliphate that sprang up because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama precipitously withdrew all American forces from Iraq and created a vacuum of power, that ISIS was able to overrun vast territories that our soldiers had won in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Mike Pence
war military navy
We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
war people care
We've seen an economy stifled by more taxes, more regulation, a war on coal and a failing health care reform come to be known as Obamacare and the American people know that we need to make a change.
war reality hiking
The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.
war struggle challenges
This is a very challenging time in the life of our nation. Weakened America's place in the world after the leadership of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the world stage has been followed by an economy that is truly struggling, stifled by an avalanche of more taxes, more regulations, Obamacare, the war on coal and the kind of trade deals that put American workers in the back seat.