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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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
Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Country Democracy Election People
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
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
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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Age Dangerous Elements Islamic
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
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Chaos Country Feels People
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Country Memories People United States
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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