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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

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
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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Country Money People United States War
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
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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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism
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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Enlightenment Gone Share
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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Broke Country People Thinking Weak
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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Country Different People Vietnam
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
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
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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Country Democracy People States
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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Boys Problem West
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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Russia Soul Trying
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
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs

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