Tag: empire

Statements

  1 /  2 
Date 
2007-07-27 "The Americans then [= after the Cold War ended] gave birth to the idea of a new empire, world leadership by a single power, and what followed? [ ... ] What has followed are unilateral actions, what has followed are wars, what has followed is ignoring the U.N. Security Council, ignoring international law and ignoring the will of the people, even the American people."
-- " Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet Union president, at a news conference in Moscow
2007-07-24 al Qaida in Iraq shares Osama bin Laden's goal of making Iraq a base for its radical Islamic empire, and using it as a safe haven for attacks on America.
- George W. Bush, President of the United States, speech
2007-01-24 "It seems to me quite obvious that our country and the entire Western World is up against an existential foe that knows exactly what it wants . . . and we’re behaving like a collapsing empire. Mighty cultures are almost never conquered, they crumble from within."
Frank Miller on National Public Radio’s program Talk of the Nation.
2007 I believe that we're close to a tipping point right now. What happened to the Soviet Union between 1989 and 1991 could easily be happening to us for essentially the same reasons. Imperial overreach, inability to reform, rigid economic ideology. ... The world's balance of power didn't change one iota on September 11, 2001. The only way we could lose the power and influence we had at that time was through our own actions, and that's what we did.
-- Chalmers Johnson, author of 'Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic'
2006-10-08 Members of the Turkish immigrant community are urged to vote at the November elections despite the fact the Labour PvdA and Christian Democrat CDA had dumped Turkish candidates in a dispute over the Armenian mass murders. The request was made at a meeting organised by the Turkish lobby group (IOT) in response to the dumping of the CDA and PvdA candidates, who had denied genocide took place in the Ottoman empire in World War I
2006 “Just about everyone who has met bin Laden describes him as a quiet, well-mannered, thoughtful, eloquent, and deeply religious man . . . it is remarkable that a man born into a multimillion-dollar empire, a man who could be on a yacht in San Tropez with a blonde on one arm and a brunette on the other, has chosen to live in a cave in Afghanistan and risk his life for his beliefs.”
-- Dinesh D’Souza in his book The Enemy at Home; The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11
2005-10-25 "Some call this evil Islamic radicalism; others, militant Jihadism; still others, Islamo-fascism. Whatever it is called, this ideology is very different from the religion of Islam. This form of radicalism exploits Islam to serve a violent, political vision: the establishment, by terrorism, subversion and insurgency, of a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom. These extremists distort the idea of jihad into a call for terrorist murder against Christians and Hindus and Jews -- and also against Muslims who do not share their radical vision, whom they regard as heretics."
-- George W. Bush, President of the United States, Addresses Joint Armed Forces Officers' Wives' Luncheon
2005-10-16 Extremists were seeking to “establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia”.
-- George Bush, President of the USA
2002 "A political unit that has overwhelming superiority in military power, and uses that power to influence the internal behavior of other states, is called an empire. Because the United States does not seek to control territory or govern the overseas citizens of the empire, we are an indirect empire, to be sure, but an empire nonetheless. If this is correct, our goal is not combating a rival, but maintaining our imperial position, and maintaining imperial order. Planning for imperial wars is different from planning for conventional international wars....Imperial wars to restore order are not so constrained [by deterrence considerations]. The maximum amount of force can and should be used as quickly as possible for psychological impact---to demonstrate that the empire cannot be challenged with impunity....[I]mperial strategy focuses on preventing the emergence of powerful, hostile challengers to the empire: by war if necessary, but by imperial assimilation if possible."
-- Stephen Peter Rosen, director of the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard and a founding member of the Project for the New American Century, in Harvard Magazine
1996 "The Soviet Union was an evil empire"
-- Robert Gates in the concluding chapter of his 1996 memoir, "From the Shadows."

Arguments

No results












All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners.
Stories, Arguments and Comments are owned by the Poster.
The Rest copyright © 2007 Argumentations.com. All rights reserved. Argumentations.com provides material for research or educational purposes only. We do not warrant the correctness of its contents. The risk from using it lies entirely with the user. While using this site, you agree to have read and accepted our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Argumentations.com is far from perfect so if you have any critiques, questions, comments or problems about this site please tell us. Click here to send your feedback. And if you like Argumentations.com please link to this site. It will really help a lot.
Embed this Tag Sphere on your website
Past the following code to your website or blog: