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" War on terrorism reflects, in my view, a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy for a superpower and for a great democracy with genuinely idealistic traditions. "
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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" The legitimacy of the leadership depends on what that country thinks of its leaders. "
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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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" 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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" Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context. "
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" I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. "
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" We can't have an intelligent foreign policy unless we have an intelligent public, because we're a democracy. "
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" There may be circumstances in which damaging our relationship with countries over human rights is counterproductive and the benefits to human rights may be very small because of our limited capacity to enforce our stance. That was the dilemma the United States faced after Tiananmen Square. "
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" Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership. "
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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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" During the nineteenth century, men died believing in the cause of royalty or republicanism. In reality, much of their sacrifice was rendered on the altar of the new nationalism. "
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New
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" Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively. "
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" I realise that in an electoral campaign, you don't want to antagonise large groups which are highly motivated. "
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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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" We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old. "
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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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" Pessimism about America's future tends to underestimate its capacity for self-renewal. "
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" The 'war on terror' has created a culture of fear in America. "
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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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" Waging a colonial war in the post-colonial age is self-defeating. "
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" We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would. "
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" Democrats should insist that a pluralistic democracy such as ours rely on bipartisanship in formulating a foreign policy based on moderation and the nuances of the human condition. "
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" To his credit, Obama has undertaken a truly ambitious effort to redefine the United States' view of the world and to reconnect the United States with the emerging historical context of the twenty-first century. He has done this remarkably well. "
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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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" You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept. "
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" 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. "
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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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