Word: gelb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gelb said that the U.S. strategy, which included the coalition of Arab and other states, depended on much luck as well as the stupidity of Saddam Hussein...
...Gelb also labeled Bush's pre-war Middle-East policy as "indifferent and ignorant," saying that in allowing for the build-up of the Iraqi military capability, the administration repeated the policy errors that led to the rise of Manuel Noriega in Panama...
...They came up with the theory that if we only stayed close to him, nurtured him, we will turn him into a model," Gelb said, "but you will be hard put to show me, however, an instance of this where a man of such truly bad character turned out to be a good guy through American nurturing...
...Gelb added that in the process of nurturing Hussein, the administration refused to keep his military buildup in check...
...Gelb said, however, that he did support Bush's decision to use military power in addition to economic sanctions against Iraq in January. Sanctions alone would have significantly delayed Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait and possibly broken the allied coalition, he said...