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Noam Chomsky Quotes about War - Page 4

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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

War, Would Be, Pakistan

"Noam Chomsky on WikiLeaks, Obama’s Targeted Assassinations and Latin America’s Break from the U.S". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. May 14, 2012.

In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands.

War, Demand, Accepting

Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.106, Metropolitan Books

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, Thinking, World

Noam Chomsky (2013). “Power Systems: Conversations with David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings and the New Challenges to U.S. Empire”, p.44, Penguin UK

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, Cities, Occupation

Noam Chomsky (2007). “Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy”, p.46, Macmillan

It's a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.

War, Miracle, Nuclear

Noam Chomsky (2016). “Who Rules the World?”, p.106, Metropolitan Books

On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.

War, People, October

Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.61, AK Press

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, Events, Example

Noam Chomsky (2010). “The Chomsky Reader”, p.13, Pantheon

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, Mean, Soldier

Interview with M. Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. December 27, 2004.

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, Yale, Administration

"Failed States". Interview with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, chomsky.info. March 31, 2006.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

War, Laos, Secrecy

Noam Chomsky (2004). “At War with Asia”, p.161, AK Press

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, People, Political

Interview with M. Junaid Alam, www.counterpunch.org. December 27, 2004.

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.

War, Fall, Law

Noam Chomsky (2007). “Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance”, p.12, Macmillan

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, Evil, Survival

Noam Chomsky (2008). “The Essential Chomsky”, p.378, The New Press

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, Iraq, Firsts

"Noam Chomsky on 1968". www.newstatesman.com. May 8, 2008.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

Strong, War, Vietnam

"Noam Chomsky on Obama’s Foreign Policy, His Own History of Activism, and the Importance of Speaking Out". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 15, 2010.

Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war.

Military, War, Support

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.

War, Fighting, Two

"Noam Chomsky on Venezuela - the transcript". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2011.

Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are things that the public should have known about. In a democracy they should have known what leaders thinking and planning about major enterprises like the Vietnam war. It was kept secret from them.

War, Thinking, Government

Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all kinds of things like popular takeovers, government intervention, and worker takeovers of factories. Business propagated a tremendous propaganda offensive. The scale surprised me when I read the scholarship - it's enormous, and it's been very effective. There were two major targets: one is unions, the other is democracy.

War, Two, Government Intervention

Source: www.iww.org

Government grew under [Ronald] Reagan. He was the strongest opponent of free markets in the post-war history among presidents. But it doesn't matter what the reality is; they concocted an image that you worship.

War, Reality, Government

Source: www.iww.org

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

War, Uganda, Government

Source: www.truth-out.org

A large part of the left is pro-Assad. In those circles, you can't criticize Assad, but you know he's a monstrous war criminal. And anyone who criticizes Assad is joining the US imperialists. That's just ludicrous.

War, Circles, Criminals

Source: www.truth-out.org

There are people on the left who say, Look, we can't let these atrocities go on, so let's enter the war and get rid of Bashar Assad. The problem with that is you get into a nuclear war with Russia. And Syria gets wiped out along with everything else. So, it's fine to say, OK, let's stop the crimes, but how exactly?

War, People, Problem

Source: www.truth-out.org

There have been repeated cases when nuclear war came ominously close, often a result of malfunctioning of early-warning systems and other accidents, sometimes [as a result of] highly adventurist acts of political leaders.

War, Leader, Political

"Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has paid reparations and so on. Japan, in contrast, apologizes for nothing and has paid no reparations, with one exception: It pays reparations to the United States, but not to Asia.

War, Japan, Asia

Source: www.madre.org

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