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.
BRENT SCOWCROFTIt’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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I’m afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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I think America has to do more than be a broker now. Because both the Palestinians are weak and Israel is very weak.
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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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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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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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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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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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Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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