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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
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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Russia Soul Trying
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
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Chaos Country Feels People
I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
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Broke Country People Thinking Weak
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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
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
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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