America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
BRENT SCOWCROFTThe Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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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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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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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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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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