Howard Zinn Quotes

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

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

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

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war.

By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.

Iraq is fighting a war against terrorism. We are trying our best to fight them. We are trying our best to fight outlaws in our country.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

To make war upon rebellion is messy and slow, like eating soup with a knife.

We declared war on terror-it's not even a noun, so, good luck.

As many critics have pointed, out, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic. Because the United States itself has a long record of supporting terrorists and using terrorist tactics, the slogans of today's war on terrorism merely makes the United States look hypocritical to the rest of the world.

There is no clear or meaningful difference between insurgency and civil war, or between national terrorism and civil war for that matter.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

The borderline between guerrilla warfare and crime, between patriotism and terrorism, is often a very thin one.

Head for jihad and have your guns ready.

In the Middle East, the opposition is quite different than the opposition in advanced countries. In our countries, the opposition takes the form of explosions, assassinations, killings.

You cannot fight one terrorist organization by making use of another terrorist organization.

We are not fighting against the Palestinian people, and we are not at war with Islam. We are fighting against terrorism.

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

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

The war against terrorism is terrorism.

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.