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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.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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
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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Empire Fall Military
In Iraq we must succeed. Failure is not an option.
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Country Failure Option People Succeed
Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let’s cooperate.
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Causes Extremes Imbalance
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
Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.
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Blessing People Tragedy
People, governments and economies of all nations must serve the needs of multinational banks and corporations.
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Government Need People
It certainly would be possible for America to redefine its role in the world, especially if, in the short run, America is able to cope effectively with the ongoing dilemma in the Middle East.
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Dilemma Running World
The kind of problem that America faces in Iraq is a little bit the kind of problem that Israel faced in dealing with Hezbollah. If the conflict, the theater of conflict enlarges, it’s going to become more and more absorbing and more and more costly.
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Country Detail People Problem
Today it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people.
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People Politics Today
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
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
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
The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they’re deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.
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Justice People World
Global stability – economic as well as political – is at risk.
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Economic Political Risk
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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Creative Effort Men

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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