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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.

Brent Scowcroft

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
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
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Country People United States World
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
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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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Country Democracy People States
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
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
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’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
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
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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Experience Soil Violence Years
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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Believe Thinking World
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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Country People Period Strategy War
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World

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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