Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...UNITED NATIONS IS ABOUT TO SUPERVISE THE DEstruction of Iraq's stockpile of nerve gas at an incinerator only 60 miles from Baghdad. It is a symbolic moment: Saddam Hussein may still be President of the Republic of Iraq, but like his arsenal of dangerous toys, his claim to being the absolute ruler of a sovereign country is going up in smoke...
...international community has put Saddam under a form of house arrest. His air force cannot fly to the south; his army cannot march in the north; he dares not venture for too long into the sunlight for fear of encountering a smart bomb or a dumb bullet with his name on it. Led by the U.S., the U.N. is using sanctions, inspections and the threat of military retribution to whittle down the scope of his authority to his palace and his bunker. The hope in Washington is that sooner or later, someone in Saddam's inner circle, or more likely...
...trouble with this strategy is that it may succeed. If the American dream of Saddam's removal comes true, the result could be a whole new humanitarian and political nightmare...
...wonder U.N. Inspectors are under fire for reporting that Saddam's nuclear program never got out of the starting blocks. Documents they recovered show that Iraq bought enough material to build 10,000 centrifuges, which are needed for a key step in enriching uranium. Says an insider: "They're scared to death there's some hidden installation, maybe underground. There are no grounds for giving Iraq a clean bill of health...
What makes such scenarios especially disturbing is the uncertainty over the status of North Korea's clandestine program to develop an atom bomb. Kim is probably playing cat and mouse, like Saddam, with the international community's nuclear inspectors. But Kim did not lose a war last year, so he has much more control over foreign access to his facilities and air space...