“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
“The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn what should have been a police investigation into a military-style occupation of an American city. This unprecedented move should frighten us as much or more than the attack itself.” ShouldHas BeensGovernmentMovingTurnsOpportunityCitiesMilitaryStyleShould HavePoliceOccupationInvestigationBostonShould Have BeenUnprecedentedBombingAmerican Cities Author:Ron Paul
“This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better,we've called the military error.” MilitaryGunErrorsTendenciesRevolutionaryBombingGlorification Author:Bernardine Dohrn
“The most racist, nastiest act by the USA, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away men, women, and children.” MenHumansChildrenMightMilitarySlaveryUsaRacistSignificanceMen WomenBombingHiroshima Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.” DoeMilitaryDirectClaimsTargetVietnamInvestigationBombing Book:The Chomsky Reader Source: The Chomsky Reader
“The definition of terrorism has to be more precise, so that we are able to discriminate between, for example, what it is that the Palestinians are doing to fight the Israeli military occupation and terrorism of the sort that resulted in the World Trade Center bombing.” WorldAbleFightingMilitaryExampleTradeDefinitionsTerrorismOccupationPalestinianPreciseIsraeliBombingWorld TradeWorld Trade Center Author:Edward Said
“Take a look at the Supreme Court decision that just authorized an effort by U.S. claimants against Iran for terrorist acts. What are the terrorist acts? The terrorist acts are bombings of U.S. military installations in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, which Iran is claimed to have something to do with. Well suppose they did. That's not terrorism. I mean if we have a military base in Lebanon that while we're shelling Lebanese naval ships, the Navy is shelling Lebanese installations and somebody attacks [that's not terrorism].” IfsWellsLooksMeanDecisionEffortMilitaryCourtTerrorismTerroristSupremeShipsIranSupreme CourtNavyBombingArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisNavalLebanonInstallationCourt DecisionLebanese Author:Noam Chomsky
“On the other hand, you have to balance that against expanding our nuclear forces, add to our so-called depleted military, which is already more powerful than the rest of the world combined; attack in Syria, send forces to Syria, start bombing. Who knows what could be next?” KnowsWorldHandsNextForcePowerfulMilitaryBalanceAddNuclearSyriaExpandingBombing Author:Noam Chomsky
“At the beginning of his administration, Reagan tried set the basis for American military intervention in El Salvador - which is about what Kennedy did when he came into office in regard to Vietnam. Well, when Kennedy tried it in Vietnam, it just worked like a dream. Virtually nobody opposed American bombing of South Vietnam in 1962. It was not an issue. But when Reagan began to talk of involving American forces in El Salvador there was a huge popular uproar. And he had to choose a much more indirect way of supporting the collection of gangsters in power there. He had to back off.” WayWellsDreamForceIssuesMilitaryHugeOfficeBasesRegardSouthAdministrationCollectionsVietnamInterventionInvolvingBombingGangstersIndirectAmerican MilitaryEl SalvadorMilitary Intervention Author:Noam Chomsky