Balkans Quote by Noam Chomsky

The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively…

— Jimmy Carter

Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts…

— Ibrahim Rugova

The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was…

— Vladimir Putin

I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not…

— Vaclav Havel

The many questions about the bombing of Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation - meaning primarily the United States - come down to…

— Noam Chomsky

Bombing the Murrah Federal Building was morally and strategically equivalent to the U.S. hitting a government building in Serbia, Iraq, or other nations.

— Timothy McVeigh

The 9/11 attack was symbolic. It was not designed to cripple us economically or militarily, at least not directly. It was designed to provoke…

— Bret Weinstein

In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the…

— Albert Speer

France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we…

— Paul Virilio

The Persian Gulf war of 1991 and the Kosovo war in 1999 also hardened India's determination to possess nuclear weapons. The United States easily…

— John Mearsheimer

From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting…

— William Blum

For the US, the Kosovo War was a success because it encouraged the development of the Pentagon's 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The war…

— Paul Virilio