John Pilger Quotes

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

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Terrorism is a strategy of provocation.

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

The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

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

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

Pathology by Daesh is distinctively to swallow its opponents, to frighten the population. In that regard, the threat is very real.

Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL

And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.

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

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.

This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and protean enemy. The battle we have begun is never-ending. But it may be too late to wind back the heady rhetoric. We have embarked on a campaign as quixotic as the one mounted to destroy us.

The war against terrorism will not be finished as long as he [Saddam Hussein] is in power.

War is terrorism ... Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause. That's what terrorists are about.

Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.

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

The war on terror is a struggle that will last for generations.

They may be rich, they may be powerful, they may have atom bombs, but Americans and British are no longer safe anywhere in the world…. They may perhaps be able to put Al-Qaeda out of commission, but that does not mean that there will not be other groups. They have been killing so-called terrorist all these years, but there'll simply be more and more terrorists

Terror cannot be finished by one war.

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

Find Al Quaeda and Kill Them

Stopping terror is clearly a pretext.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

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