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My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions.
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You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.


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A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.
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Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
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What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.
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Democracy isn't just for people in the Middle East, but Britons, too.


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The U.S. now imports over half of its oil supply from the Middle East. This dangerous dependence on foreign energy sources is an issue of national security.
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In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.
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The Iraqi war has transformed the Middle East.


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It is a relatively small number of people who want to impose their will by the use of terror on the rest of civilization, who have got a program. It's not blind violence. It's with a purpose. They want to destroy the state of Israel. They want every westerner out of the Arab countries, Middle East and elsewhere.
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Well, a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East would be a wonderful thing.


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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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If all Henry Kissinger contributed to the Middle East were a regional arms race, petrodollar addiction, Iranian radicalization, and the Tehran-Riyadh conflict, it would be bad enough. His legacy, however, is far worse than that: He has to answer for his role in the rise of political Islam.
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U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.
Richard Armitage