Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only two years after invading Kuwait, our old acquaintance Saddam Hussein (looking healthy and heavily re-armed by the French and the Chinese) has just welcomed his fellow Arab leaders--including the Emir of Kuwait and the King of Saudi Arabia--to the Arab League summit. Cordiality and warm embraces have replaced the fighting words of the "Kuwait incident," and the failure of the West to make progress on the Palestinian issue has reunited the Arabs in their hatred of the "Zionist occupying entity," Israel, and its allies in Europe and North America...
Gelb said that the U.S. strategy, which included the coalition of Arab and other states, depended on much luck as well as the stupidity of Saddam Hussein...
...Bush administration became so committed to the elegance of their own logic that they even went out of their way and slapped down efforts to at least squeeze Saddam Hussein, to test whether he had larger, more flattering ambitions," he said...
Having settled accounts with Saddam Hussein, America now has an historic opportunity to help resolve the 43-year-old conflict between the Arabs and Israel. That demands a new approach to the peace process, one which capitalizes on America's influence in the region while recognizing Arab intransigence as the major obstacle to peace...
Barbara Mikulski, Maryland. This abrasive first-termer hasn't impressed the folks back home. Mikulski will have trouble winning back the support of conservative blue-collar voters who don't understand why she didn't support punching out Saddam Hussein...