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Brent Scowcroft

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
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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Disputes Hussein Menace
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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Countries Known Merchants 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
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
After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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Country Democracy Firsts People
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology World
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
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
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
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
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

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