“Palestine is occupied land, and under international law, the Palestinians have the legal right to resist this occupation by any and all means. This may make busses, restaurants, discos-where Israeli military congregate, lawful targets.” MayMeanLawLandMilitaryInternationalRestaurantsIslamicTargetOccupationPalestinianPalestineIsraeliInternational LawDisco Author:Enver Masud
“I think the worst thing in the world is to have the courts decide who to target in the war on terrorism. And courts are not military commanders.” ThinkingWorldWarWorstMilitaryCourtTerrorismTargetWorst ThingsCommandersWar On TerrorWar On Terrorism Author:Lindsey Graham
“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
“Deterrence failed completely as a guide in setting rational limits on the size and composition of military forces, spurring an insatiable arms race with a reckless proliferation of the most destructive power ever unleashed, tailored for delivery by a vast array of vehicles to a stupefying array of targets.” ForceRaceMilitaryArmsLimitsSizeGuidesSettingRationalSettingsDestructiveTargetVehicleCompositionRecklessDeliveryInsatiableProliferationUnleashedMilitary ForceArms RaceTailoredDeterrenceDestructive Power Author:George Lee Butler
“[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.” BelieveWarCountryFactsReligiousVirtueViolenceImpossibleMilitaryCitizensDemandWorshipInstitutionsFilledSoldierPopulationConvincedEndlessIntenseMinoritiesTargetAggressionNobilityDegradeCitizenryEndless War Author:Glenn Greenwald
“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 war is not going well and it is time to say why. It has been fought with half-measures. It has been fought with an eye on the wishes of our "coalition partners." It has been fought to assuage the Arab "street." It has been fought to satisfy the diplomats rather than the generals... Why have we not loosed the B-52s and the B-2s to carpet-bomb Taliban positions? And why are we giving the Taliban sanctuary in their cities? We could drop leaflets giving civilians 48 hours to evacuate, after which the cities become legitimate military targets.” GivingWellsHas BeensWarEyeWishHoursCitiesHalfStreetsMilitaryPositionPartnersBombsTargetCarpetCiviliansSanctuaryTalibanCoalitionsDiplomats48 HoursHalf Measures Author:Charles Krauthammer
“You bomb ISIL. You're not trying to bomb innocent people. And that requires intelligence and confidence in our military to be able to develop the kinds of targets that we need. We're already doing Special Forces, who are going to help us gather that intelligence and help advise and assist and train local forces so that they can go after ISIL in areas like Raqqah and Mosul.” PeopleNeedsTryingKindHelpingAbleForceSpecialMilitaryAreasTrainLocalsInnocentBombsTargetAdviseIsilSpecial Forces Author:Barack Obama
“What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.” ThinkingWarStuffTermPathMilitaryCircumstancesSoldierCivil WarTargetBeatenPresentationBackdropBeaten PathOff The Beaten Path Author:Gary Cole
“The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a military strike on [Bashar] Assad will cause him to be encouraged to use more weapons or discouraged. It's easy enough to say - and the president [Barack Obama] says though this will teach him a lesson - but his military strike is intended not to target him individually, not to bring about regime change.” WarEnoughUseCausesEasyPresidentInterestTeachMilitaryLessonsWeaponsStrikesBarackCivil WarTargetRegimesSyriaDiscouragedPresident Barack ObamaAssadBe EncouragedRegime Change Author:Rand Paul
“If you shell a military base and happen to kill civilians, you have not committed a war crime; if you deliberately target cities and towns, you have.” IfsWarHappensCitiesMilitaryCrimeTownsCommittedTargetShellsCiviliansWar CrimesCities And Towns Book:Fire Source: Fire
“The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.” ShouldStatesUseAmericaForceUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryPreparedStrikesTargetRegimesUnited States Of AmericaBe PreparedAssadMilitary Force Author:Mike Pence
“You cannot use [nuclear weapons] to target civilians; you cannot use them against military targets if they have indiscriminate effects on civilians in addition to the attack on the military target.” IfsUseEffectsMilitaryWeaponsNuclearTargetNuclear WeaponsCivilians Author:John Burroughs
“It should not be hard to say that Vladimir Putin's military has conducted war crimes in Aleppo because it is never acceptable for military to specifically target civilians, which is what's happened there, through the Russian military.” ShouldWarHardHappenedMilitaryCrimeTargetAcceptableCiviliansPutinWar CrimesRussian Military Author:Marco Rubio
“The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed civilians in Dresden and Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.” WorldWarChristianMilitaryMethodNuclearInnocentWar Of The WorldsIslamicBombsTargetWorld War IiCiviliansHiroshimaDresdenNuclear BombWaging War Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf