I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
BRENT SCOWCROFTAmerica wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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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 art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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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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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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