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Brent Scowcroft

Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they’re the West’s whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
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Boys Problem West
After the ’30s, we said, “no more Munichs.” And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, “No more Vietnams.” Now if we say, “No more Iraqs,” the next one won’t be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can’t learn lessons.
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Country Different People Vietnam
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Country Looks People System Thinking
To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn’t know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
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Country Hussein Internal People Situation
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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Broke Country People Thinking Weak
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
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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Country People Strength Stronger
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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Enlightenment Gone Share
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Better Country World People
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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