Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
BRENT SCOWCROFTThe radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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 Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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