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Brent Scowcroft

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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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 Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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But the central point is that any campaign against Iraq, whatever the strategy, cost and risks, is certain to divert us for some indefinite period from our war on terrorism.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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