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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.

Brent Scowcroft

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Country People United States World
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
I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Country Looks People System Thinking
America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Better Country World People
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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Country People Period Strategy War
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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Age Dangerous Elements Islamic
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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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Experience Soil Violence Years
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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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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