It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.
NOAM CHOMSKYI took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
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Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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It’s a near miracle that nuclear war has so far been avoided.
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Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.
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There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.
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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.
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The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he’s regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
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