If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
NOAM CHOMSKYMarkets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
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It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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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 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
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So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way.
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The drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
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It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.
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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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In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies.
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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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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
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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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