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The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.

Brent Scowcroft

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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Yes, Israel’s our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
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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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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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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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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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The art of diplomacy is to take an opportunity and turn it into something.
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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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Russia right now is searching for its soul. It’s trying to figure out what it really is.
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After all, we didn’t bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
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It’s not for nothing that the Iranians are known as rug merchants. They are.
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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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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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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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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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It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.
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