“I did not feel proud of our country, seeing that we were bombing peasant villages, that we were not just hitting military targets, that children were being killed. We were terrorizing the North Vietnamese with our enormous Air Force. They had no Air Force at all. They were a little pitiful country and we were terrorizing them with our bombs. And no, I did not feel proud at all.” FeelsChildrenLittlesCountryForceSeeingAirMilitaryProudEnormousOur CountryBombsTargetVillageHittingPeasantsBombingAir ForcePitifulVietnamese Author:Howard Zinn
“I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.” KnowsWorldWarReadingForceMy OwnClassAirUniversityCommittedMissionsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IExpansionNaziImperialismBombingAtrocitiesAir ForceHiroshimaDresden Author:Howard Zinn
“What's somewhat puzzling is that Churchill himself knew what the reaction would be to any sort of aerial attack on cities, because in 1938 he said that in a future war British cities would be attacked by bombing, and that the response would be that all men would want to join the fight because they would be so incensed by this cowardly manner of attack. Which is a very natural response: when something drops on you from the air and blows up a bunch of buildings and kills people in their sleep, the reaction is going to be rage, confusion, and a search for something to destroy in retaliation.” PeopleMenWantSaidWarWould BeFightingNaturalSleepCitiesAirBuildingResponseBlowBritishRageReactionsBunchConfusionBombingCowardlyRetaliationPuzzling Author:Nicholson Baker
“Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life.” IfsFeelsSchoolCertainExistenceConsciousnessMorningAirStudentsMissionsPlanesTensionEnginesExistentialInvasionBombingBeijingExistence Of Life Author:Lu Xun
“Yes, I remember the bombings. Yes, I remember, because - yes, I remember being in air raid shelters. Even though I was evacuated because I was very young, I remember being in air raid shelters and the tremendous feeling of compatibility with everybody.” FeelingsRememberYoungAirShelterBombingCompatibility Author:Joan Collins
“Using overwhelming air power to utterly and completely destroy ISIS. To put things in perspective, in the first Persian Gulf War, we launched roughly 1,100 air attacks a day. We carpet bombed them for 36 days, saturation bombing, after which our troops went in and in a day and a half mopped up what was left of the Iraqi army.” FirstsWarLeftHalfAirPerspectiveArmyOverwhelmingTroopsCarpetIsisBombingPersianOur TroopsAir PowerGulf WarSaturationPersian Gulf Author:Ted Cruz
“North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.” PeopleGivingMeanLittlesAmericaCasesAirStrangePromiseDemandGiving UpWeaponsMassProgramDestructionIncludingSakeProofNuclearKoreaNorth KoreaWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionBombingSlamManiacsSlam Dunk Author:Jon Stewart
“We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them, just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.” BelieveHas BeensAbleAirBalanceSurfaceOppositionChemicalsAfghanistanIntroducingSyriaCarpetModeratesDroppingMissilesBombingAircraftHelicoptersBalance Of Power Author:Adel al-Jubeir