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
Brent Scowcroft quotes about
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Only very gradually did we understand that we - like any other country - have clearly defined national interests.
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
So far the changes in the president in his second term have been mainly of a rhetorical nature.
The policy of detente with the Soviet Union, which was begun by President Nixon in 1972, was broadly seen by 1975 in bad shape, if not in tatters. In other words, were able to take advantage of the relaxed atmosphere to pursue the same goals they had.
The Iraqis need help establishing a government. We have to provide them with security.
Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.
I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
Simply killing everyone who is already a terrorist today won't solve the problem.
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.
A colossal event is upon us, the birth of a New World Order.
We must find out where the roots of terrorism lie.
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.
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.