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"Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war."
"Washington still refuses to provide evidence to support the claims in 1990 that a huge Iraqi military build-up on the Saudi border justified war."
"In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining."
"The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming."
"Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy."
"A number of analysts have observed that although bin Laden was finally killed, he won some major successes in his war against the U.S."
"You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence."
"Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility."
"In 1962, war was avoided by Khrushchev's willingness to accept Kennedy's hegemonic demands."
"A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster."
"Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history."
"In the early days of the military Arpanet, my daughter was studying in Nicaragua. Because the U.S. was essentially at war with them, contact was difficult. I managed to use MIT's Arpanet connection, and she found one, so we could communicate thanks to the Pentagon!"
"Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to establish this required truth. We therefore have phenomena called 'peace missions' and the 'peace process'. These are terms that apply to whatever the United States happens to be doing or advocating at some moment... in short, 'War is Peace'."
"It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they were during the First World War. The public sees no reason to get involved in foreign adventures, killing, and torture. So you have to whip them up. And to whip them up you have to frighten them."
"In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962."
"The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched."
"Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy."
"Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy."
"John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale."
"On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations."
