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If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.

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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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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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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