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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.

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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
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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Country People Period Strategy War
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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Country Democracy People States
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
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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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Enlightenment Gone Share
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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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
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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Experience Soil Violence Years
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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