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                                        Interview by Tor Wennerberg, November 1998  http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/199811--.htm. 
Quotes 1990s, 1995-1999 
Context: No individual gets up and says, I'm going to take this because I want it. He'd say, I'm going to take it because it really belongs to me and it would be better for everyone if I had it. It's true of children fighting over toys. And it's true of governments going to war. Nobody is ever involved in an aggressive war; it's always a defensive war -- on both sides.
                                    
 
        
     
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                             
                            