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

Brent Scowcroft

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
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
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
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
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
After the ’30s, we said, “no more Munichs.” And it got us in a lot of problems. Then we said, “No more Vietnams.” Now if we say, “No more Iraqs,” the next one won’t be an Iraq. It will be something different. You can’t learn lessons.
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Country Different People Vietnam
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
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
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
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
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
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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