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Dennis C Blair

There are many causes of violent deaths in America – murders and traffic accidents – that we do not approach with the same ‘no price too steep, no task too difficult’ approach that we take toward al Qaeda.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

In addition to anti-American terrorists with global reach, our adversaries include organizations – some nation states, some private and some criminal – that proliferate weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

I think American interests are served when there are sections of the world that have representative governments, politically open economic systems, and are willing to take a stand against some of the more extreme ideologies that there are around the world.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

Southeast Asia is an area in which there is a form of Islam which is both devout and progressive, and therefore to be supported. It’s an area in which I see a congruence of American interests and local interests: to have tolerant societies and become more prosperous.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

The use of large-scale military force in volatile regions of underdeveloped countries is difficult to do right, has major unintended consequences and rarely turns out to be quick, effective, controlled and short lived.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don’t think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

As I’ve said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

I know it sounds Pollyannish and ‘Kumbaya’-like, but I find that the more that you expose Americans to the diversity of what’s going on in China and vice versa, the more people find that there is this broad middle path. And so I’m a strong advocate of intense visits and dialogue back and forth.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

There’s sort of a theory that’s going around in the China-watching community about a perfect storm coming up with the 2008 Olympics, a U.S. election and a Taiwanese election, some sort of mutually reinforcing explosion and crisis.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.

– Dennis C Blair

Dennis C Blair

You can’t always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.

– Dennis C Blair

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