There’s never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it’s mostly a fabrication.
NOAM CHOMSKYIf you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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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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It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‘least advanced’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us.
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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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Stability is when the U.K. and U.S. invade a country and impose the regime of their choice.
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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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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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Even in the 1950s, President Eisenhower was concerned about what he called a campaign of hatred of the U.S. in the Arab world, because of the perception on the Arab street that it supported harsh and oppressive regimes to take their oil.
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You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
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Up 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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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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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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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the Occupy movement started, very probably as a consequence. And there are other policy issues that came to the fore, which are significant.
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That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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