Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Perhaps this reasoning begins to explain the willingness of many Yemenis, North African Arabs and Palestinians to wink at Saddam Hussein's brutality; it was cloaked in the rhetoric of Pan-Arabist "justice" and was therefore--although immoral and un-Islamic--understandable and probably excusable...
Finally, after the coalition's stunning blitzkrieg satisfied the U.N. demands, the U.S. refrained from storming Baghdad to try to topple Saddam. Bush deserves credit for this show of restraint, as well...
First of all, the Administration probably could have deterred Saddam from invading Kuwait in the first place if it had made its military intentions clear in the days preceding August 2. But Washington sent out conflicting signals, and the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq told Saddam that she doubted an invasion would be answered with force. Neville Chamberlain used similar tactics at Munich in 1938. As Bush has said, it's called appeasement, and it doesn't work...
...forget that the Soviet Union isn't the only superpower that helped to assemble Saddam's war machine...
...CRIMSON does not support wars very often. There aren't too many necessary wars out there to fight. We hope America's success in this one does not breed a jingoistic overconfidence in military solutions. We hope the demonization of Saddam Hussein does not inspire anti-Arab sentiment back home, or an insistence on unreasonable reparations from Iraq. (The lessons of World War I are relevant today...