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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

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Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Country Democracy Election People
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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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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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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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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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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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