Word: dictatorate
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It is time the first world took up arms to defend democracy against Mugabe, a dictator who suppresses freedom by torture and murder. If Western nations can fight to defend democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan, then surely they can do the same in Zimbabwe, where a war against Mugabe and...
Back in early 2002, George Bush called North Korea a charter member of the axis of evil. This morning, the President gave Kim Jong Il one of the diplomatic plums the North Korean dictator has most sought: removal from both the State Sponsors of Terrorism list and the Trading with...
On the streets, the battle over Sandinista symbols has led to a kind of semiotic chaos in which the government and opposition groups use the same images to convey very different messages. The ruling party pays homage to national hero Rigoberto Lopez Perez, who assassinated former dictator Anastasio Somoza Garcia...
Yet instead of caricaturing diplomacy by invoking the Munich Agreement as code for spinelessness, it is worth studying Chamberlain's failed effort in the Munich talks for lessons in how not to negotiate. He was unprepared, unsophisticated and ultimately unsuccessful in preventing World War II. Having never before boarded an...
Chamberlain also violated Part I of President Kennedy's golden rule: "We should never negotiate out of fear, but we should never fear to negotiate." Terrified by intelligence reports that exaggerated the reach of the German Luftwaffe, Chamberlain agreed to hand over 3 million Sudeten Germans, even though doing so...