More - Richard Haass Quotes

Given [the] potential high costs [of an attack], Washington should be searching harder for a diplomatic alternative, one that entails direct US talks with Iran beyond the narrow dialogue announced on Iraq.

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 Potential

[Bush can claim one triumph: We have suffered no further attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 (not counting the unsolved anthrax attacks later that fall). Casualties are far fewer, too, than in any other major war in U.S. history since the Revolution.] I do think there's been progress in some areas, ... In the last four years, for example, I think the world has become a tougher place for terrorists to operate in.

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The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.

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Iraq was at core a war of choice, and extraordinarily expensive by every measure - human life, impact on our military, dollars, diplomatically.

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 Choice

There's a daisy chain that stems from the fact that no weapons of mass destruction have been found.

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I do think there's been progress in some areas. In the last four years, for example, I think the world has become a tougher place for terrorists to operate in.

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 Example

We cannot sustain this degree of guns, this amount of butter and this level of taxes.

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The biggest thing these appointments tell you about the direction of U.S. foreign policy is that there is no direction.

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 Direction

Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind.

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 Mind

To the neorealist,

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