Word: imperialists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Says Yuri Shchekochikhin, a reform member of parliament: "He should understand that they have already made a dictator out of him. He has refused to put down the military-industrial complex, and his popularity has fallen throughout the country. He should make his final choice. Either he is an imperialist or a democrat...
...policies of England, the United States and other world powers during the imperialist era often produced the economic and political turmoil in non-Western cultures that devalued their art. As a result, Western collectors could buy art object cheaply, or simply take them. At the same time, these collectors could argue that they were performing a moral service by "preserving" art from destruction...
There are no clear and easy answers in this debate. But a thorough investigation of the conditions surrounding the acquisition of museum collections is required as we emerge from the imperialist age into a new era of multicultural harmony and co-existence...
...somewhat desensitized and disillusioned by the all-too-familiar scenario: The imperialist "liberator" of the region, in an effort to extend and protect its domain, attacks a strategically placed--but militarily defenseless--country in its "backyard." Haunted by past war failures and a need to justify an awesome war machine, the "liberator" fears that the resources of the neighboring country may slip from its control...
Xenophobic passions aside, there was a more practical consideration in the push to establish an Arab peacekeeping force. Moderate Arab leaders, like Mubarak and Jordan's King Hussein, know well that if the showdown in Saudi Arabia begins to look like a conflict that pits the "imperialist" U.S. against a beleaguered Iraq, Arab sympathy will tilt toward Saddam. An Arab proverb instructs that if a Muslim nation invites a foreigner onto its soil to fight, then all other Islamic nations should turn against the renegade nation. Warns a Syrian official: "The Americans should realize that if they hurt Iraq...