Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officials were also eager to find some solution that would at least superficially hold the alliance together. In fact, the best policy, most analysts in Washington agree, is to do exactly what the U.S. has been doing all along: wait Saddam out and wear him down. Saddam, they note, is much weaker than he was five or 10 years ago. He remains powerful in Iraq because he has crushed his opposition, but on an absolute scale, his power is shrinking, his military is smaller, his money...
...still a threat. "If Saddam ever thinks the sanctions are never going to be lifted, he could say to hell with this, I'm not going to be the nice guy anymore," admits a State Department official. "But if the sanctions are lifted soon, then it also removes his incentive for being a nice guy. In a way we're caught in the same bind." So far, two American Presidents have not found a way to eliminate Saddam or civilize him. Washington may have to settle for finding the least objectionable way of living with...
...whack Saddam and be done with him? As we should have done last time, right? As even Richard Nixon advised two months after the Gulf War ended in 1991: "If I could find a way to get him out of there, even putting a contract out on him . . . I would be for it." Only Ross Perot is as publicly bold today, but the words "unfinished business" are on almost everyone's lips. From the soldier in the desert to the folks at home, most Americans (72% in the latest TIME/CNN poll) favor using military force to remove Saddam Hussein...
Revenge is the ultimate temptation, but like most temptations the urge to topple Saddam -- let alone kill him -- should be resisted until the consequences are appreciated...
Ever since George Bush stopped short of Baghdad and Saddam four years ago, he and his top advisers have been asked to defend their hesitation. Last week they were at it again. "We carried out our war and political aims," said former Secretary of State James Baker. "If we'd gone further, the coalition would have fragmented and we wouldn't have the sanctions today." Finding Saddam wouldn't have been easy, says Norman Schwarzkopf, recalling that Panama's Manuel Noriega defied a manhunt for quite some time. "If we'd gone to Baghdad," says former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney...