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" Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating. "

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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" Missing from much of the public debate is discussion of the simple fact that lurking behind every terroristic act is a specific political antecedent. That does not justify either the perpetrator or his political cause. Nonetheless, the fact is that almost all terrorist activity originates from some political conflict and is sustained by it as well. "

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" All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia. "

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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. "

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" America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East. "

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" According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. "

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" The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation. "

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" Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography. "

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" As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping. "

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" The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers. "

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" The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies. "

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" A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition. "

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" Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential. "

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" A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system. "

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" 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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" It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety. "

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" We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. "

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" The external Soviet empire lasted 45 years. It is shattered, beyond redemption or repair. "

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" The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation. "

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" America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs. "

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" The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill. "

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" The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive. "

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" The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security. "

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" We don't have a public that really understands the world anymore, and in the age of complexity, that problem becomes much more difficult. "

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" Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content. "

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" Eurasia is the world's axial supercontinent. A power that dominated Eurasia would exercise decisive influence over two of the world's three most economically productive regions: Western Europe and East Asia. "

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" I don't feel I was 'born American,' but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II, and I craved something I could identify with. When I became a student at Harvard in the 1950s, America very quickly filled the vacuum. I felt I was American, but I think it's more revealing of America how quickly others here accepted me. "

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" Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us? "

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" Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity. "

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