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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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Explain Forthcoming Region Something
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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Boys Problem West
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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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Experience Soil Violence Years
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Country Memories People United States
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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Country Money People United States War
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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Country Different People Vietnam
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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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Age Dangerous Elements Islamic
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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Better Country World People
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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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