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“Reagan was an incredible coward. Somebody who could believe that an air base in Grenada could be used to attack the United States does not even reach the level of a laughingstock.”
― David Barsamian, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: noam-chomsky

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“I should say, though, to my amazement, the occupation is not succeeding. It takes real talent to fail at this.

[On the American invasion of Iraq]”
― David Barsamian, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: noam-chomsky

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“President Kennedy was trying to organize the hemisphere to support his terrorist attacks against Cuba, which were very severe. ... the Mexican Ambassador said, "If we publicly declare that Cuba is a threat to our security, forty million Mexicans will die laughing.”
― David Barsamian, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: noam-chomsky

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“Reagan's regime was one of murder, brutality, and violence, which devastated a number of countries and probably left two hundred thousand people dead in Latin America, with hundreds of thousand of orphans and widows.”
― David Barsamian, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: noam-chomsky

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“The embedded journalists are talking about the suffering of the marines, who are so hot and are being fired on all the time.”
― David Barsamian, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World

tags: noam-chomsky

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