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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.

Brent Scowcroft

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
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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Country People Strength Stronger
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
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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 don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Country Looks People System Thinking
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
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Country People United States World
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
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
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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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism
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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Believe Thinking World
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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Country Hussein Internal People Situation
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity

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