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" Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Politicians

Emotions

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Zbigniew Brzezinski

Will

America

" I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy. "

" There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it. "

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" The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Fact

Wishes

" Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East. "

" We should be therefore supporting a larger Europe, and in so doing we should strive to expand the zone of peace and prosperity in the world which is the necessary foundation for a stable international system in which our leadership could be fruitfully exercised. "

" If we end up with war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran at the same time, can anyone see a more damaging prospect for America's world role than that? "

" The potential for regional conflict in the absence of an internationally active America is real. "

" Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states. "

" If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world. "

" The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America. "

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" American power worldwide is at its historic zenith. "

" The war of choice in Iraq could never have gained the congressional support it got without the psychological linkage between the shock of 9/11 and the postulated existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. "