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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

I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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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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Explain Forthcoming Region Something
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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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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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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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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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