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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

Brent Scowcroft

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
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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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
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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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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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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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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