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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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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
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
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
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
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
Information technology has politicized the world’s population.
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Population Technology 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
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 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
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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Allies Country Enemy People
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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
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
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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