Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gulf had an aspect of the high-tech medieval. What Beelzebubs flew buzzing through the sky on the tips of Scuds and smart bombs, making mischief and brimstone? Each side demonized the other, as in every war: Gott mit Uns. Saddam Hussein had George Bush down as the Evil One. George Bush had Saddam down as Hitler. In most of the West, Hitler is the 20th century's term for Great Satan. After the war, quick and obliterating, Hussein hardly seems worthy of the name of evil anymore...
...Saddam Hussein raised atavistic questions about evil. But the West has grown preoccupied by newer forms -- greed, terrorism, drugs, AIDS, crime, child abuse, global pollution, oil spills, acid rain. The fear of nuclear holocaust, which not long ago was the nightmare at the center of the imagination, has receded with amazing speed...
Last week, The Crimson called on President Bush to give the U.N.'s economic embargo of Iraq a chance to cripple Saddam's war machine. We agreed that the worldwide coalition could not tolerate the ruthless dictator's occupation of Kuwait indefinitely, but we believed (and still do believe) that military force should be used only as a last resort...
...should make certain goals painstakingly clear: reversing the aggression of Saddam Hussein and preventing further aggression; deterring other Middle East countries from encroaching on the sovereignty of their neighbors; and removing Hussein's threat to the world economy. As long as military action remains consistent with all of these objectives, the offensive should continue...
...until it actually began. He realized that there were reasons to go to war, but would have preferred that sanctions had been more honestly pursued as an option. "I don't think anyone opposed to or in support of the war had any illusions about the nature of Saddam Hussein," he says. "But I think he would have been forced to back down without...