Author: Brent Scowcroft

Quotes

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.

- Brent Scowcroft

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

The UN could help the Iraqi government get on its feet and help the United States withdraw a bit more.

- Brent Scowcroft

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

- Brent Scowcroft

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

- Brent Scowcroft

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

- Brent Scowcroft

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

- Brent Scowcroft

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.

- Brent Scowcroft

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