William Blum Quotes

I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.

Terrorism is what the weak use to increase their bargaining power against the strong.

Terrorism is a means/a tactic, not an ideological or defined physical enemy

Terrorists are everywhere and, emphatically, not only in Iraq.

The war against terrorism is terrorism. The whole thing is just bullshit.

Terrorism is simply the weapon by which the weak engage the strong.

Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.

Europe has a long and tragic history of mostly domestic terrorism.

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

Terrorism is a significant threat to peace and security, prosperity and people.

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

Israel is under a dual terrorist attack, from within and from without. And terrorism from within is always more dangerous than terrorism from without.

The real threat comes from terrorism.

You cannot have good terrorists and bad terrorists.

Terrorists and terrorism cannot be eliminated any more than we can rid the world of disease. There will always be those who will resort to force against innocent men, women, and children in pursuit of political goals.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

The United States of America is engaged in a war against an extremist group of folks.

Terrorism benefits the Arabs, it may lay waste the Yishuv and shake Zionism. But to follow in the Arabs' footsteps and ape their deeds is to be blind to the gulf between us. Our aims and theirs run counter: methods calculated to further theirs, are ruinous to us.

ISIS is on its way to defeat but terrorism threat persists.

In Iraq we are fighting against men with blind hatred and armed with lethal weapons who are capable of any atrocity. They wear no uniform; they respect no laws of warfare or morality. They take innocent lives to create chaos for the cameras.

Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

In principle... no government in the world can accept an armed terrorist group, some of them coming from abroad, controlling streets and villages in the name of 'jihad'.

All terrorism is theater.

Terrorism is resorted to for practical reasons because there is no other tool available. And those who use terrorism, and then subsequently become the targets of terrorism, understand its power and how difficult it is to counter it. Not just militarily. But especially in terms of international perception.