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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

Brent Scowcroft

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
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My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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We have not been forthcoming about explaining a security relationship for the region, in which Iran can feel secure and thus maybe willing to do something.
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Explain Forthcoming Region Something
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn’t share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they’ve gone back and forth.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
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But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don’t agree with that, because I don’t think we’re capable of doing that.
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America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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