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

Brent Scowcroft

It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
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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Country Democracy Election People
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 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
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
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
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
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
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology 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
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
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
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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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