Bombing Quotes - Page 5

• The great lesson to be learned in the battered towns of England and the ruined cities of Germany is that the best way to win a war is to prevent it from occurring.

  George C. Marshall

  War, Winning, Cities

  "The United States strategic bombing surveys European War Pacific War", (p. 41), September 30, 1945.

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• Jihad should be waged in places where there is war. Bombings in places where there is no war is not a good thing.

  Abu Bakar Bashir

  War, Good Things, Should

  "Leader of Indonesian Jama'a Islamiyya Abu Bakr Al-Ba'shir: I Support Bombings in America, But Not in the Muslim World". MEMRI, October 26, 2007.

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• Since 1993, there have been eight or nine, depending how you count, abortion providers who have been murdered in this country. There have been arsons. There have been clinic bombings. There have been attacks offsite. Before this, the most recent abortion provider who was murdered was George Tiller in his church on a Sunday morning. So, this fits a pattern.

  David X. Cohen

  Country, Morning, Sunday

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• I also did a great amount of writing while doing research. It gave me the opportunity to meet and talk to people other than family, but also to explore my own memory deeper by comparing it to the memories of others who were in my home town during, for example, the political transition from socialism to a nationalistic "democracy" or during the bombings.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Memories, Writing, Home

  "The Rumpus International Rivers Interview #3: Sasa Stanisic On The Danube". Interview with Michael Zelenko, therumpus.net. January 25, 2010.

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• For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Stars, Dark

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Spin”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• There's no doubt that Boko Haram has been driven from many of its strongholds in northeastern Nigeria. Now, President Muhammadu Buhari says technically, we have won the war. Those in the know say but technically, the army is still losing the battle because Boko Haram has changed tactics. Instead of now holding territory as it used to and calling this territory its own, now it is resorting to guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run raids and especially suicide bombings.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Suicide, Running, War

  "Nigeria Declares Victory Over Boko Haram - But Do Nigerians See It That Way?". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 27, 2015.

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• I would like to ask a question. Would this sort of war or savage bombing which has taken place in Vietnam have been tolerated for so long, had the people been European?

  Indira Gandhi

  War, Taken, Long

  Indira Gandhi (1984). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: September 1972-March 1977”

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• We believe that introducing surface-to-air missiles in Syria is going to change the balance of power on the ground. It will allow the moderate opposition to be able to neutralize the helicopters and aircraft that are dropping chemicals and have been carpet-bombing them, just like surface-to-air missiles in Afghanistan were able to change the balance of power there.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Believe, Air, Balance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The first thing you have to do is understand what success looks like. And to understand what success looks like you have to understand the intent. If you understand that intent is to make sure the sea lines are secure, then suddenly bombing Kosovo makes sense, because you don't want Serbia to reemerge as a major power.

  George Friedman

  Sea, Lines, Want

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You hear about bombings in other countries, or numbers like "10,000 people died" - you hear that number and you think, "Well, I saw that yesterday in a film, and that didn't look so bad." Younger viewers, in particular, lose perspective on reality.

  Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The people who perpetrated the terror of the World Trade Center and Pentagon bombings are something different because these people were obviously not desperate and poor refugee dwellers. They were middle class, educated enough to speak English, to be able to go to flight school, to come to America, to live in Florida.

  Edward Said

  School, Florida, Speak English

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Every chance at destabilizing [Bashar] Assad... the bombing campaign causes a flood of refugees into Jordan, there's already half a million in Jordan. I think a bombing campaign - I think it's hard to argue that a U.S. bombing campaign is going to cause less refugees. And I think it causes more refugees and more of a humanitarian disaster. I think it causes, or allows, the risk of Israel being attacked with a gas attack to go up, if we attack Assad. So there's all kinds of bad things.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Israel, Risk

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• I am pleased though that there's a possibility of a diplomatic solution [in Syria]. I remain somewhat skeptical, but I am pleased that it's a possibility and I think people like myself who've been arguing for delaying this bombing, have allowed this diplomatic possibility to occur.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, People, Arguing

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• Nothing exceptional [would happen to the world under a Hillary Clinton's presidency] - things would stay the same: sponsorship of "Color" or "Umbrella" or whatever "revolutions", some more coups, "regime changes", direct invasions, bombing, propaganda warfare against China, Russia, Iran, South Africa and what is left of the Latin American revolutions. There would be plenty of torture in "secret centers", but it would not be as advertised and glorified as it would be if [Donald] Trump were elected.

  Andre Vltchek

  Latin, Russia, Iran

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's amazing that Europe says, "What are we going to do with these refugees?" It's as if it doesn't realize that being part of NATO and bombing these countries forces them to choose to live by fleeing, or to stay and get bombed.

  Michael Hudson

  Country, Europe, Fleeing

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

  Andrew Aydin

  People, Church, Campaigns

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We have a deal. And so there's movement towards a peace agreement, you know, a peace accord, a cease-fire, which is great. That's fabulous. It's unfortunate that we're also bombing Syria together [with Russians], and in my view we need - what we need to do together is create a weapons embargo together and get all the parties with the program here, and also collaborate on a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries that continue to fund terrorist enterprises, the No. 1 source of that being the Saudis.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Party, Views

  "Off Message" with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. September 19, 2016.

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• What I do know is that drones are a modern weapon. When used effectively, when taking out ISIS or terrorist leaders, that's pretty impressive. When bombing wedding parties of innocent people and killing dozens of them, that is, needless to say, not effective and enormously counterproductive. So whatever the mechanism, whoever is in control of that policy, it has to be refined so that we are killing the people we want to kill and not innocent collateral damage.

  Bernie Sanders

  Party, Isis, People

  Interview with the Daily News Editorial Board, www.nydailynews.com. April 1, 2016.

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• Yet while on my trip to the Middle East, the London bombings occurred. This was yet another stark reminder that if we don't fight terrorists abroad, they just get closer to our home.

  Kenny Marchant

  Home, Fighting, East

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• What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

  Enver Masud

  Suicide, Believe, Islamic

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• A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.

  John McCain

  Children, Hero, Men

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• The contrast couldn't be clearer between the intentions and the hearts of those of us who care deeply about human rights and human liberty and those who kill. [on the terrorist bombings in London, July 7, 2005

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Rights, July

  George W. Bush's address to the people of London on the terrorist bombings, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. July 7, 2005.

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• I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings

  Kofi Annan

  Cutting, July, Humanity

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• These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Numbers, Cities

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Sir Winston Churchill, K. G., P. C., O. M., C. H., M. P.: selections from his writings and speeches”

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• After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst.

  Elif Safak

  Grief, People, Silence

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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