The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.
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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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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.
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There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on.
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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 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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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But, of course, it is just easier to terrorise people.
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Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.
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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 more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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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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I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?
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