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Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.

Brent Scowcroft

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
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
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
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
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
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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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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Country People Strength Stronger
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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Country Democracy People States
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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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants People
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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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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