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
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.
Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.
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.
But, if you believe we should go around the world overturning regimes to make little United States, I don't agree with that, because I don't think we're capable of doing that.
But figuring out Saddam Hussein was one our greatest mysteries. He marched to his own drummer and frequently as this unfolded he made decisions which were sometimes inexplicable to us and sometimes didn't look very smart.
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous. They want to achieve a return to the Islamic purity of the Middle Ages.
After all, we didn't bring democracy to Germany in 1945; Hitler destroyed democracy there first.
America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.
First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.
But there is scant evidence to tie Saddam to terrorist organizations, and even less to the Sept. 11 attacks.
The radical elements in Islam are very dangerous.
We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the U.S.-Soviet antagonisms.