Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nine years ago, the United States led a broad UN coalition in a war against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. It successfully repelled the Iraqis from Kuwait and its petroleum riches. However, the war ended in a stalemate, with Saddam still (ruthlessly) ruling Iraq and no way but sanctions and air strikes to keep his regime in check. With children dying from untreated diseases and malnutrition and the Kurds existing day-to-day by the humor of Saddam's Republican Guard, the Americans expressed concern about the situation. They bolstered the program of weapons inspections, the condition for lifting sanctions...
...Today, Saddam remains in power in Iraq and Americans, often reservists, stand guard over more than half of its war-torn landscape, policing no-fly zones. Water treatment plants are not rebuilt. The economy is nonexistent, at least in measurable terms. Convoys of the few supplies that actually are ordered by the Iraqi government from the West's watchguards are often diverted, squandered or sold to those who can barely survive let alone pay for what was meant of be distributed for free...
...must consider if the solution will lie in working with Saddam for his people and not continuing to fail to work against him. American foreign policy seems to make a choice between the battle against tyranny, terrorism and militarization, and the war against disease, infection and without concern for borders. The United States, hearkening back to the founding of the United Nations it so proudly hosted in San Francisco a half-century ago, must choose to do both, and make a priority of human life and dignity for the greatest number--with any potential partners...
...Thursday showing that the death rate among Iraqi children under age 5 has doubled in the era of U.N. sanctions, will only add to the disquiet of Washington?s Arab and European allies over U.S. Iraq policy (even if, as Washington insists, much of that suffering is caused by Saddam?s failure to distribute humanitarian supplies allowed through under the embargo). In addition, as a senior administration official told the Times, unless the U.S. and its allies are prepared to send in ground troops, the best Washington can hope for is to contain - rather than overthrow - Saddam?s regime...
...thing the U.S. learned from Saddam Hussein: When the other guy rattles his saber, you?ve got rattle yours right back. And so the White House made clear Friday that any Chinese military action against Taiwan would bring retaliation from the U.S., following reports that Beijing had warned Washington that China might "punish" Taiwan over its leader?s demand for an end to the "One China" policy, which maintains that democratic Taiwan and the communist mainland are one nation that will eventually be reunified. "The U.S. is being very careful not to repeat the mistake that preceded the 1991 Gulf...