Absence Quote by Noam Chomsky

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have…

— Marek Belka

But now that the guerrilla fighting is over, the Spaniards are again men without a country or families or homes or work, though everyone…

— Martha Gellhorn

There is a war on terror that must be fought. Nobody's immune... And so rather than finding fault with what Spain has done by…

— Colin Powell

“And in a more general context, after World War I, many air force leaders had come to see civilians as legitimate targets, often advocating…

— Geoffrey Jensen

All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere to make…

— H. L. Mencken

“The seizure of the church and other lands and the closing of Catholic schools were among the developments that deeply disturbed many Spaniards on…

— Geoffrey Jensen

Some 2,800 Americans went to Spain [during the Spanish Civil War], and it was, by far, the largest number of Americans before or since…

— Adam Hochschild

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

— Noam Chomsky

Terrorists have to know that (in Spain) there is going to be a government that is inflexible with terrorism and that wherever they are,…

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

No Spanish government has given into terror and no government will do that.

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

“Widespread violence against civilians also demonstrated that the Spanish Civil War was, sadly enough, not a unique case in modern history: such terror has…

— Geoffrey Jensen

A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

— Carles Puigdemont