Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BUSH'S RECENT HINT of a new Pax Americana that would begin after Saddam Hussein's defeat raises unsettling images of John Winthrop's ideal of America as a "city on a hill," John Foster Dulles's notion of America as savior or even the 19th century vision of America's "manifest destiny...
...remarkable international coalition formed to oppose Saddam Hussein would seem to bode well for the future of collective security. But Bush's hasty move to end economic sanctions clouds that future considerably...
Hoffmann maintained that if the anti-Iraq coalition failed to defeat Saddam Hussein cleanly and quickly, the U.S. could retreat into isolationism and destroy the possibility of collective security to halt future Saddamism. "Only a miraculously successful war--a swift victory through a limited resort to force--would dispel these dangers," Hoffmann wrote...
Recent signals from the State Department are not helping. After months of tough rhetoric calling for the removal of Saddam Hussein, Secretary of State James Baker said last week that the president would be willing to half hostilities if Saddam made "an unequivocal commitment to withdraw from Kuwait." Bush should insist that Saddam actually pull out of Kuwait completely before stopping the war effort. The U.S. should stick to the agreed-upon goals around which the coalition was formed...
...control -- that it wants to save, however disillusioned it might be by Gorbachev's retreat from reform. The gulf coalition has a strong interest in keeping Gorbachev aboard. -- a conviction that was only enhanced by last week's unconfirmed reports that the Soviet military was still providing help to Saddam Hussein...