After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
BRENT SCOWCROFTThe 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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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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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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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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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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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 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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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