Word: provokingness
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Saddam's game plan, naturally, is first and foremost to avoid a war that his regime can't survive. The Iraqi leader knows that while Washington's policy of "regime-change" in Iraq has little international support, its demand that Baghdad comply unconditionally with UN disarmament requirements has unanimous backing...
The problem is less at a government-to-government level than in the sphere of public opinion. Although they'd like the Saudis to do more to clamp down on funds reaching al-Qaeda, the Bush Administration has spoken positively of Saudi cooperation against bin Laden's network in the...
Iraq has for years fired on U.S. and British planes patrolling the zone, hoping to bring one down in the belief that this would force Washington to back down. (These days, of course, it would likely have the opposite effect.) Provoking the U.S. and Britain to drop bombs in Iraq...
Then again, it has also been made abundantly clear to Saddam that he has no choice. His stealthy resurgence in the decade following the Gulf War was achieved primarily by skillfully exploiting differences among his domestic and international enemies. That may be why the Arabs, Russia and France have taken...
He criticized the rationale for war as “insane” and wryly suggested a “less insane” alternative—provoking Iran into attacking Iraq.