40 Quotes by Noam Chomsky about war

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    What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which people fire machine guns from a helicopter at Vietnamese huts, with a light flashing when a hit is scored? What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? You have to weep for this country.

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    There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

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    Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.

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    Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.

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    The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming.

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    Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism.

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    Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.

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    The American escalation of the war in Laos provoked a response by the Communist forces, which now control more of Laos than ever before.

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