"Terrorism has much deeper roots, and they lie in American foreign policy, particularly in the Middle East. This is something that Americans don't like to face or think about, but just because the enemy is evil, that doesn't mean we're good."

Boston University professor Howard Zinn in The Christian Science Monitor, October 10, 2001

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"Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me.' "

George Orwell, 1942, quoted in Michael Kelly's column "Pacifist Claptrap" in The Washington Post, September 26, 2001

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