Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
BRENT SCOWCROFTAmerica 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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Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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