There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYIntellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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But I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements.
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If you’re teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
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What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
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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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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
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If you’re working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the kinds of aspirations that come from being flooded with television from age one, and associations have declined, people end up hopeless, even though they have every option.
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As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
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The leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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