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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

Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
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
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don’t agree with that, because I don’t think we’re capable of doing that.
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Believe Thinking World
I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Country Memories People United States
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
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
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
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
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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Chaos Country Feels People
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
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
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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