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Brent Scowcroft

The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
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
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
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
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
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
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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
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
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
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
I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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