Word: despotes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the U.S. began its bombing of Kosovo, the Clinton Administration has tried to ignite idyllic urges by appealing to our sense of democracy and liberty. They have painted Milosevic as a cruel, maniacal despot and the Albanian Kosovars as the innocent victims. Accurate descriptions to be sure, but they have used these images to mislead and manipulate our sensitivities and consciences. Our bombs, we are told, will bring about "peace" and "autonomy"--two of a politician's most effectively ambiguous words. What exactly are "peace" and "autonomy" in a region as volatile and disparate as Kosovo? And how exactly...
...Loudspeakers blared circa-1970s revolutionary songs as people marked the ballots on their lap. Not all residents were enthused. "These officials are all the same," a wiry farmer sniffed. "I'm not even voting." He complained angrily about the depressed price of pork and lambasted the "Zhu Ba" (Pork Despot), a local entrepreneur who has monopolized the buying and selling of pigs...
...smaller, more parochial matters like building roads and bridges and picking up cash by selling more kiwi fruit and pork. In their eyes, getting the chance to cast a ballot does not yet ring grandly of revolution. They'd rather find a way to get rid of the Pork Despot...
Osama bin Laden: Winds of change have blown in order to lift the injustice to which the world is subjected by America and its supporters and the Jews who are collaborating with them. Look at what is happening these days in Indonesia, where Suharto, a despot who ruled for 30 years, was overthrown. The time will come, sooner rather than later, when criminal despots who betrayed God and his Prophet, and betrayed their trust and their nation, will face the same fate...
DEATH OF A DESPOT...