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.
BRENT SCOWCROFTAmerica wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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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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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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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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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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