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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.

Brent Scowcroft

Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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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Country Different People Vietnam
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
I don’t think the Chinese look out at the world and want to overturn the system.
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Country Looks People System Thinking
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
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
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
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
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
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
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
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
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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Explain Forthcoming Region Something

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