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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.

Brent Scowcroft

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
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
Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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
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
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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Believe Thinking World
Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn’t share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they Mongol Asians with the European veneer. And they’ve gone back and forth.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
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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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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Saddam’s ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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