Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shrewd and tireless prodding of both sides. The Secretary has repeatedly demonstrated a flair for problem solving, not only by launching the Middle East talks but also by working out an agreement with Congress on Nicaragua in 1989 and by helping stitch together last year's coalition against Saddam Hussein. Baker may not fashion foreign policy single-handedly -- certainly not in an Administration where the President is a seasoned internationalist who also consults closely with National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft and Defense Secretary Dick Cheney. But Baker is the man who, more than any other, gets White House policy...
...absence of clearly defined policy goals, even the successful projection of American military power can come to an indecisive conclusion. Two years after the American invasion of Panama, that nation is once again a corrupt parody of democracy. One year after the liberation of Kuwait, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein remains in power, still repressing his own people and threatening the hapless Kurds, while the autocratic Kuwaitis pursue their own abuses against Palestinians in their country...
...might have caught if he were less insulated by his tiny team from the Foreign Service and outside experts. He consistently underestimated the power of nationalism in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. Preoccupied with Gorbachev and German unification, he did not smell the trouble brewing in Baghdad as Saddam Hussein moved closer to invading Kuwait...
Moreover, the same politicians and news analysts who turned Israel's stature into a front-page story are silent about the money that America gave to dictators like Saddam Hussein and Hafez El-Asaad of Syria, not to mention the military regimes in Latin America that are backed...
Because there is no formal government, decisions are made by the Kurdistan Front, which consists of eight major groups. To create something closer to civil administration, Kurdistan will hold elections on April 3 for its national assembly, which Saddam originally set up just for show. The vote "is also to end the rule of the militias," says Massoud Barzani, head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, the other leading political movement. "When the militia rules, the law does not." But a U.S. analyst fears that instead of burying dissension, the vote may actually accentuate...