Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
BRENT SCOWCROFTInformation technology has politicized the world’s population.
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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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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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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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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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