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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.

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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Country Hussein Internal People Situation
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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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Believe Thinking World
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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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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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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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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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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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