Noam Chomsky Quotes

The reason the United States is not so likely to invade Iran is precisely because of the lessons learned from Iraq. And conversely, the Iranian push towards nuclear capability is calculated to deter invasions like the kind deposing Saddam Husain.

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

If a country is suspected of going nuclear, you need to understand why. Why does it feel insecure?

The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.

While our nation's attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has grown exponentially, while there seems to be a falling asleep, so to speak, at the switch when it comes to North Korea.

I don't think Israel can accept an Iranian terror base next to its major cities any more than the United States could accept an al Qaeda base next to New York City.

If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?

Iran has not invaded any other country. We have not threatened to use force. Just exactly the opposite of Israel. Israel threatens to use force against Iran almost on a daily basis. And it has a record.

When the U.S. claims the right to invade any country unilaterally and then defines a country like Iran or North Korea as 'evil,' then it is a rational response for these countries to develop nuclear weapons as the only military deterrent to invasion. We create what we most fear.

America is not really a strong enough state for us to regard it as an enemy of Russia.

Iran has attacked oil fields and shot down a U.S. drone - all while we stood by.

World's major powers, including China and Russia, don't want to 'finance' American military adventures anymore.

We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well.

I don't think Russia could start a war by attacking any of the NATO member states.

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Washington has openly declared its right to unilateral use of force anywhere to uphold its own interests.

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan.

The Arab view that someone should bomb Iran and stop it from developing nuclear weapons is familiar to anyone who meets privately with Arab leaders, especially in the Gulf.

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

What could become a danger to world peace is Iran's nuclear program and the country's open threat to annihilate Israel.

Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

I don't think a wise thing at this moment is for Israel to launch a military attack on Iran.