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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

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
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
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
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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Country Democracy Election People
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
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
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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Broke Country People Thinking Weak
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
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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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Country Memories People United States
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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