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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.

Brent Scowcroft

Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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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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