Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroft
Brent Scowcroftis a retired United States Air Force Lieutenant General. He was the United States National Security Advisor under U.S. Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush. He also served as Military Assistant to President Richard Nixon and as Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs in the Nixon and Ford administrations. He served as Chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2005 and assisted President Barack Obama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth19 March 1925
CountryUnited States of America
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.
We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.
A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.
Osama bin Laden is going after us to get us out of the region, so he can deal with the regimes that he sees in the region, or replace them with purists.
After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead.
The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.
Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all.
The Iraqi elections were an important first step.
Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.
You know, different people are going to react different ways. And I don't think we should be intolerable because people do things a little differently.
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.