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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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.
We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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.
A Russia that gradually begins to gravitate toward the West will also be a Russia that ceases to disrupt the international system.
A waning United States would likely be more nationalistic, more defensive about its national identity, more paranoid about its homeland security, and less willing to sacrifice resources for the sake of others' development.
AIPAC has consistently opposed a two-state solution, and a lot of members of Congress have been intimidated, and I don't think that's healthy.
All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.
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.
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.
America's decline would set in motion tectonic shifts undermining the political stability of the entire Middle East.
America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
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.
Basically, I see Iran as an authentic nation-state. And that authentic identity gives it cohesion, which most of the Middle East lacks.
Because America is a democracy, public support for presidential foreign-policy decisions is essential.
Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
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.
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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Zbigniew Brzezinski
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28 March, 1928
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26 May, 2017
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