What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded.
NOAM CHOMSKYDeath and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way.
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You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.
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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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The childcare tax credit makes some sense.
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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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Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
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A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.
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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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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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Intellectuals 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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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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But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.
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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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If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
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