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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.

Brent Scowcroft

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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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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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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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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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