Quotes from Bruce Cumings

it is difficult to understand that not everyone in the world wants to be an American.

It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States in the policeman of the world.

It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States into the policeman of the world.

Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end.

What money is to the son of the west, marriage is to the Korean: