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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.

Brent Scowcroft

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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Country People Strength Stronger
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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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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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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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