Lawrence Eagleburger

(35 votes)   Americans usually believe that nothing is impossible.

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(21 votes)   The whole nuclear thing is a terrible mess and it's hard for me to understand why it is that we, the United States, seem to be the only ones that are really particularly concerned about it and prepared to do something.

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(19 votes)   In the best of all worlds everyone in the Embassy is doing something to assist U.S. exports.

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(19 votes)   The question really is how do we get Embassy Officers into the minds of the American business community. That is a much more difficult task than understanding a statistical matrix.

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(18 votes)   In a time of constrained resources we will have to shift emphasis. but not necessarily from the traditional Political Officer to the traditional Economic Officer.

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(16 votes)   Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

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(16 votes)   That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.

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(15 votes)   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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(15 votes)   Now there is a cultural change under way in the Foreign Service.

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(15 votes)   The Foreign Service has spent 50 years concentrating on political and military affairs at a time when the U.S. economy was preeminent.

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(14 votes)   There has been a major improvement in the way U.S. Ambassadors and the Foreign Service establishment try to assist U.S. business overall.

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(14 votes)   What we need is to develop in all Foreign Service Officers a better instinct for understanding the needs of U.S. business abroad.

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(13 votes)   Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

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(13 votes)   Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program.

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(13 votes)   The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.

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