I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
BRENT SCOWCROFTRussia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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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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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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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 art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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