There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYUp until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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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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The truth is, I have absolutely no professional credentials – literally, which is why I’m teaching at MIT.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
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All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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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 drones are a terrorist weapon; they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people.
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I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it’s from Neptune.
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While the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
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