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History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.

Chalmers Johnson

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

Chalmers Johnson

Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price-individua lly and collectively-fo r their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.

Chalmers Johnson

Blowback is simply another way of saying that a nation reaps what it sows.

Chalmers Johnson

None of the people's wars of the sixties did very well, including the one in Vietnam. Vo Nguyen Giap himself has admitted a loss of 600,000 men between 1965 and 1968...Moreover, by about 1970 at least 80% of the day-to-day combat in South Vietnam was being carried on by regular NVA troops...Genuine black-pajama southern guerrillas had been decimated and amounted to no more than 20% of the communist fighting forces.

Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Johnson

Chalmers Johnson

Born: August 6, 1931

Died: November 20, 2010 (aged 79)

Bio: Chalmers Ashby Johnson was an American author and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego.

Known for:

Blowback (2000)
The Sorrows of Empire (2004)

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