Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
BRENT SCOWCROFTThe art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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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 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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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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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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 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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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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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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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