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Brent Scowcroft

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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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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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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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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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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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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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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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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The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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