Word: overthrowing
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...American approach may succeed, largely because the Americans have now come around to what most Arab governments have been saying for some years - that comprehensive sanctions are hurting ordinary Iraqis but are not helping overthrow Saddam, and that they're giving him ammunition for his propaganda war. The position that economic sanctions that hurt the people rather than the regime should be lifted will be a point of consensus between mainstream Arab opinion and the U.S. But a crucial test remains to what extent Syria and Jordan will continue to tolerate smuggling, because right now Arab economies are hurting...
...most dramatic setback suffered by Kosovo's Albanian nationalists was probably the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade. Once Yugoslavia had elected a president with whom the West could do business, prospects for winning NATO support for formal independence for Kosovo dimmed even further. That, and President George W. Bush's campaign promise to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from the Balkans, may have prompted Albanian nationalists across the region to step up their campaign for a Greater Albania, by launching new insurgencies in Serbia's Presevo Valley (which falls in a demilitarized buffer zone adjacent to Kosovo) and in northern...
...that Saddam's neighbors are ready to play ball if they believe Washington is pursuing a sound strategy. The problem, of course, is that the Arab states who lined up behind the U.S. in the Gulf War for the most part don't believe that a proxy war to overthrow Saddam is a sound strategy - they have serious doubts, echoed by many in the Pentagon, about the abilities of a loose and diverse coalition of opposition groups to defeat the dictatorship, much less of the notion that such an outcome would actually enhance regional stability...
...tightens implementation of measures designed to prevent Iraq from refurbishing its military or building weapons of mass destruction. To the hard-liners, that may look like going soft on Saddam at a time when they want to see more done to support efforts by Iraqi opposition groups to overthrow the strongman - a policy not favored by Powell, nor by Washington's allies in the region...
...other words lift the general economic sanctions package that has failed to overthrow Saddam, but keep controls over what weapons he can acquire...