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Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn’t know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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