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Brent Scowcroft

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
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
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
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
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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Explain Forthcoming Region Something
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
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
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
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
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
My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.
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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism
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
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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