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Brent Scowcroft

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
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
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
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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Experience Soil Violence Years
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
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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Country Money People United States War
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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Art Diplomacy Opportunity
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
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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Broke Country People Thinking Weak
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
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
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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Country Democracy Election People
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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