I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
BRENT SCOWCROFTSaddam’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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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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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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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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America is stronger than any state probably since the Roman Empire. But we can’t do what used to be done with that kind of strength.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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