Word: arabized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gulf, the theater of war was also, maybe mainly, a theater. As the New York Times's Malcolm Browne notes, "This war seemed to smell more of greasepaint than of death." In time, other odors may rise, as the nation weighs the war's cost in American dollars and Arab lives. But last week Schwarzkopf gave the U.S. a warrior to be proud of. Others might see glamour in the allied victory; he would carry the memory of the dead on his burly shoulders. His Great Performance was so convincing, not because he knew it would be the finest speech...
...owed about $3 billion for past weapons deliveries when Iraq invaded Kuwait. But more than markets and money was at stake. Mitterrand had to consider the legacy of General Charles de Gaulle, who believed it was part of France's destiny to develop a special relationship with the Arab world. The President also had to weigh the probable impact of his actions on neighboring Arab states around the Mediterranean -- not to mention 4 million North Africans living in France...
...edge of the abyss, U.S. policy toward Iraq ran headlong into contradiction with itself. On July 25, 1990, as Iraqi tanks and troops were massing along the border of Kuwait, U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie told President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad that the U.S. had little to say about Arab border disputes and was eager to improve relations with Iraq. That same day in Washington, anxious State Department officials urged the Pentagon to dispatch the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Independence and its battle group, then in the Indian Ocean, to the mouth of the Persian Gulf -- as a signal to Saddam that...
Washington looked to moderate Arab governments for help in understanding Saddam, but their assessments were distorted. Like the U.S., Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan were counting on Iraq to hold the line against the spread of Islamic fundamentalism from Iran. Their leaders repeatedly assured the U.S. that Saddam was turning moderate and merited continued American support...
...absolutely right; he should be proud that many Arabs like Mr. El-Jeaan have had the courage to reject the intellectual and moral slavery that Pan-Arabism has come to represent. He should be proud that many Arabs like Mr. El-Jeaan cherish the ideal of establishing a "moral paradigm among all the Arab people" which would guarantee justice and self-determination for all the states in the region...