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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

Brent Scowcroft

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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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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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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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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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