Word: despot
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...than in any terrorist attack in U.S. history. And bin Laden did more than kill people. We had just packed up and stored away the century of Hitler and Stalin--both Men of the Year in their time--which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand--like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple--then slowly crumple it into a fist was to confront not only the nature of evil but how much we still...
...left-wing journalist Christopher Hitchens complained in the Nation that in their haste to point the finger at the U.S., some of the antiwarriors dismissed the fact that what the terrorists want is not a liberal ideal of global justice but the despot's utopia of religious extremism. "The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face," Hitchens wrote. "What they abominate about 'the West'...is its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state...
...Brooks, the show is about more than that. This onetime combat engineer in the European theater in World War II is still satirizing Hitler, without apologies. "You can't compete with a despot on a soapbox," he notes. "The best thing is to make him ludicrous." And now he may be seeing more of himself in the wacky show-biz satire he wrote more than 30 years ago. "It's the story of a caterpillar who becomes a butterfly--that's Leo Bloom," says Brooks. "And that's me. A little kid from Brooklyn who finally made it across...
...while Washington may have insisted that democracy is the precondition for rehabilitating Serbia, that won't necessarily end all of the Balkan troubles: Slobodan Milosevic may be a despot and a demagogue, but the troubling reality is that most of the Serbian opposition accepted the principle that their nation should fight to hold on to Kosovo...
...China, which abstained from Friday's vote. "The U.S. wants to keep sanctions in the belief that they're essential to overthrowing Saddam," says Dowell. "But the French believe sanctions are destroying the fabric of Iraqi society, which could mean that after Saddam there'll either be another despot or else Iraq will break up into an endless civil war situation, like Lebanon...