Word: arabism
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...inspections were over. I don't believe he went in there for oil. We didn't go in there for imperialist or financial reasons. We went in there because he bought the Wolfowitz-Cheney analysis that the Iraqis would be better off, we could shake up the authoritarian Arab regimes in the Middle East, and our leverage to make peace between the Palestinians and Israelis would be increased...
...ignored." Tehran has lots of reasons not to appear meek these days. U.S. forces are now deployed on two sides, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and Iran's leaders feel it hasn't been given enough credit for helping the Americans in Afghanistan. It has had recent border disputes with Arab neighbors. The E.U. has just blasted its human-rights record, and U.N. nuclear inspectors have uncovered evidence that contradicts Iranian claims that its nuclear program is purely peaceful in intent. That exercises Washington in particular, but also London, Paris and Berlin, which last October jointly reached an agreement with Tehran...
Whenever a President has called the country to arms, it has been in the name of a larger good and a higher calling. But the argument is especially freighted when the U.S. is confronting an Arab world that is already deeply suspicious of its intentions. "People don't want a President to think that every important decision has a stamp of God's approval and that God is always on his side," says ethicist Cromartie. "I think people want their Presidents to be pious but not self-righteously so. So there's a paradox, isn't there? A President...
...American forces from Iraq. But the graduating seniors at Baghdad University are already plotting exit strategies of their own. Outside the school's College of Languages, two friends discussed which British graduate programs might accept them. Another student thought he might have found a job in the United Arab Emirates. Even students without concrete plans have decided to get out. "I haven't a clue where I'm going, but it will be outside Iraq," says Omar Abdul Wahab al-Samarrai, 24, an English major who grew up in Europe and Africa. For years he had his heart...
...Abdurahman Alamoudi, an American Muslim leader arrested last fall at Dulles airport, who claimed he was told by Gaddafi last June that he wanted the prince dead. (Alamoudi's lawyer will say only that his client is "cooperating fully.") The alleged plot followed a public rebuke at an Arab summit last year, when Abdullah said to Gaddafi, "You are a liar, and your grave awaits...