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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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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
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
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
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Government Helping Needs
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
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
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
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Allies Progress Together Working
Democracy doesn’t just consist of holding elections.
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Consists Democracy Election
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
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Community Elements Radical Religion
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
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
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
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
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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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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Experience Soil Violence Years
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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