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Brent Scowcroft

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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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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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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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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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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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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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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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