Nick Turse quotes

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.
-- Nick Turse

#Government #Guides #Your Future

The true history of Vietnamese civilian suffering does not fit comfortably into America's preferred postwar narrative - the tale of a conflict nobly fought by responsible commanders and good American boys, who should not be tainted by the occasional mistakes of a few 'bad apples' in their midst.
-- Nick Turse

#Mistake #Boys #Apples

Whether I'm trying to figure out what the U.S. military is doing in Latin America or Africa, Afghanistan or Qatar, the response is remarkably uniform - obstruction and obfuscation, hurdles and hindrances. In short, the good old-fashioned military runaround.
-- Nick Turse

#Military #Latin #Qatar

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.
-- Nick Turse

#Real #War #Moon

The military has a very long relationship with Hollywood that dates back to the silent film era.
-- Nick Turse

#Military #Silent Films #Long

It's embarrassing ... you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the Best Seller's List.

It was, however, resolved that 'we use our private influence at present to prevent our brethren from going into court and promising to obey the law; and as soon as possible we take steps to get some flavors from the government for those who already have more wives than one.'

I don't know what being an Everest guide means. I am a coach, not a guide.

We all work with one Infinite Power. We all guide ourselves by exactly the same laws.

Trust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide

If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished.

Your attitudes contain your future.

Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.