Iran has little capacity to deploy force. Its strategic doctrines are defensive, designed to deter invasion long enough for diplomacy to set… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We have to remember that literally within months after Castro's taking office the planes from Florida were beginning to bomb Cuba. Within… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When something like this [2003 invasion of Iraq] takes place, the international law professionals have a complicated task. There is a fringe… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The real invasion of South Vietnam which was directed largely against the rural society began directly in 1962 after many years of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The costs of the Bush-Obama wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now estimated to run as high as $4.4 trillion - a major victory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive state. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There are questions as to whether it should even exist. Who should corporations be responsive to, the management of a corporation? Theoretically they are… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The first thing you ought to do is verify what I present. Just because I say it doesn't make it true. So check it… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things. Noam Chomsky — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
There's an interesting book about that called The Third Reich and the Ivory Tower, written by Stephen H. Norwood. It has a long discussion… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image