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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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Explain Forthcoming Region Something
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
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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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Better Country World People
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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