Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point to make. "There's a lot of frustration internationally at the U.S. making empty threats about the use of force," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Washington is feeling the pressure to render military strikes a credible option, and there's no better target than Saddam." Defense Secretary Cohen is in Europe Tuesday to get Gulf War allies on board for action against Iraq's new defiance of the U.N. The Security Council meets Wednesday to formulate a response to Baghdad, which could be a prelude to military strikes -- although Russia, France, China and pro-Western Arab states...
...firing off a fleet of cruise missiles will raise new strategic problems for Washington: "Even though Saddam has now rendered U.N. arms control ineffective, it's not clear what an air strike actually achieves," says Dowell. "It may damage his military assets, but it's not likely to dislodge Saddam from power." So whether or not the Tomahawks fly, the post-Gulf War standoff game is about to change...
...Saddam Hussein has called Washington's bluff, and the U.S. hand is looking shaky. As President Clinton meets Monday with his national security team to discuss Iraq's suspension of U.N. arms inspections, Saddam clearly believes that, absent the mother of all "bimbo eruptions," the U.S. is unlikely to muster the political will and the international support necessary for military action. Which leaves Saddam, improbably, holding most of the aces...
...Baghdad has carefully picked its moment to rewind to last winter's crisis: On Friday, the U.S. blocked attempts by Russia, France and China to review U.N. sanctions against Iraq. Saddam hopes to exploit that division to isolate Washington from its Gulf War allies. Russia and pro-Western Arab states will likely be even more strongly opposed to military action than they were last February, while Saddam will have drawn courage from NATO's obvious reluctance to take military action in Kosovo. The policy makers meeting in Washington will be aware that if air strikes could alter the political equation...
...Milosevic] always does this... waits until there is a military threat involved," said Skrabalo, who first came to the U.S. in 1994 for his senior year of high school. He compared Milosevic's promises to those of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein...