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.
BRENT SCOWCROFTRussia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
More Brent Scowcroft Quotes
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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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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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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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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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