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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.

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
Who is the guarantor, if there is one, of a more stable world? It’s the United States.
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Country People United States World
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
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
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
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
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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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
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
It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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America wants to work with friends, with allies, with people of good will, to make this a better world.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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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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Fighting Followed Numbers Terrorism

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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