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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

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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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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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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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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