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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

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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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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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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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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