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

Brent Scowcroft

Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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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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Country People Period Strategy War
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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If you look back at the first Gulf war, the Arabs sent forces, they sent money. So their interests in Iraq are clear, but they’re nowhere to be seen now. Why? Because right now, it’s dangerous to be seen as supporting the United States.
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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
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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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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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism
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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Enlightenment Gone Share
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
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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Age Dangerous Elements Islamic
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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