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In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The scope of America’s global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints.
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Country Depth Hegemony People
Arab nationalism, which tended to be until relatively recent somewhat secular in motivation, has now become increasingly religious and fundamentalist. And that makes it more pervasive, more difficult to deal with.
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Difficult Motivation Religious
I was confident about America and the idea that in America people can become American without masking their ethnic identity.
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Country Ideas People
Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.
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Country Independent People Time
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
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Baggage Country Media People Time
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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Country Failure Option People Succeed
The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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Giving Opportunity War
Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.
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People Politics Today
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.
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Country Government Liberty People Time World
I happen to think that as the Ukraine moves to the West, towards the E.U., eventually towards NATO, it will pave the way also for Russia moving towards the West. Because it will become a logical extension of the same process, and it will eliminate any imperial ambitions.
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Ambition Moving Thinking
People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
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Government Need People
Global stability – economic as well as political – is at risk.
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Economic Political Risk
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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Anxiety Important Thinking
Marxism represents a further vital and creative stage in the maturing of man’s universal vision… The nation-state is gradually yielding its sovereignty… More intensive efforts to shape a new world monetary structure will have to be undertaken.
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