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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.

Brent Scowcroft

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.
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Country Money People United States 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
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
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’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
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
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
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
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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
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
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
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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Boys Problem West

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