Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter how moderate the PLO may try to appear, its actions indicate its true nature. Arafat's alliance with Saddam Hussein is just the most recent step in the PLO's war against Israel. Joshua S. Kreitzer...
Many have said that war is hell. If war is hell, who is the culpable evildoer? Saddam Hussein calls George Bush "Satan," and Bush calls Hussein the "Butcher of Baghdad." So who is the real warlock? To the dismay of the unequivocal supporters of either Hussein or Bush, both epithets are correct in that both are responsible for much of the world's recent fiendishness. This is obviously distasteful news to our self-censoring listeners who ignore their own country's fallacies. But facts are facts...
Many Arabs and, more generally, many Muslims identify with Saddam Hussein precisely because he is losing on what they see as a heroic, even mythic scale. For them, his plight is a symbol of their own victimization by the rich and powerful nations of the world. No matter how and when the war ends, Islamic rage already threatens the stability of traditionally pro-Western regimes from Morocco to Jordan to Pakistan. Blunting that trend is more important than seeing Saddam get what he deserves...
...opponents want him not just out of Kuwait but off this planet. That goes for all the active combatants and many interested bystanders as well. The government in Tehran hopes that someone other than Saddam will eventually present the claim check for the Iraqi warplanes now parked in Iran. The Israelis have a tacit deal with Washington: they stay out of the fighting, and the U.S. rids the neighborhood of its No. 1 menace...
...noted by Thomas Friedman of the New York Times, Syria's record on human rights this past year was "barely distinguishable from that of Iraq". Continued appeasement of Assad will bring upon the region and the world the same tragic results of the U.S.'s warming of relations with Saddam Hussein during the 1980s...