If I was to criticize the administration for anything, ... it is the general opinion people have in so many places around the world that the United States is so powerful now -- and the only superpower now -- that we can do almost anything we want.
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There's Hezbollah, there's Hamas, there is a whole range of terrorist targets out there related to Palestine and to Israel that we ought to be trying to deal with. And there's a great deal of targets in the Philippines, Indonesia. You name it, there are a number of places where there are targets that we ought to be trying to deal with.Lawrence Eagleburger
When you are in the presence of the president of the United States, I don't care if you've been a devout Democrat for the last hundred years, you're likely to pull your punches to some degree. Now, there was some criticism. But it was basically, you haven't talked to the American people enough. And it was very mild.
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I think, unless Saddam Hussein falls in a hole one day or somebody shoots him in the head, I personally think he is prepared to go down with his ship.
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My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.
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