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...emboldened Blair to think that in certain carefully delineated cases the use of force for humanitarian purposes might make sense. As far back as 1999, he had Iraq on his mind. In a speech in Chicago at the height of the Kosovo crisis, Blair explicitly linked Milosevic with Saddam Hussein: "two dangerous and ruthless...
...Balkans and West Africa. In a region where religious loyalties and fissures shape societies and where the armies of "the West" summon ancient rivalries and bitter memories, it was naive to expect that an occupation would quickly change a society's nature. "When we removed the Taliban and Saddam Hussein," Blair told Congress in 2003, "this was not imperialism. For these oppressed people, it was their liberation." But we have learned the hard way that it is not for the West to say what is imperialism and what is liberation. When you invade someone else's country and turn...
Harvard Law School security guard Najeeb Hussein thanked the students for their support, before presenting them with a bouquet of flowers...
...society of bitter caricature, evil actions are only perpetrated by evil people—Saddam Hussein, death row murderers, and George W. Bush, to name a few common targets. Pointing fingers seems like the easiest course of action whenever a problem arises. “I could never do what they do,” we tell ourselves. But as famed psychologist Philip Zimbardo reminds us, we are all capable of distasteful, even evil, actions, given the right situation.As anyone who has taken an introductory psychology course knows, Zimbardo was the creator and lead experimenter in the infamous Stanford Prison...
...highly critical of the decision-making process that led to the Iraq war. "There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat," Tenet writes. He adds that there was also no "significant discussion" about dealing with Saddam Hussein short...