Word: satanizing
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...obstacle. Thus, killing U.S. Marines in Lebanon had an obvious goal: to drive them out by undermining support at home for their deployment abroad. What an Iranian terrorist would hope to accomplish by hitting a target in the U.S. is less clear; perhaps lashing out at "the Great Satan" would be motive enough...
According to Kuwaiti newspapers, the terrorist who drove into the U.S. compound was an Iraqi member of the banned Al Dawa party, a fundamentalist Muslim group with ties to Iran. For years, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has branded the U.S. as "the Great Satan." He is also angry with France for selling military equipment to Iraq and with Kuwait for supporting and underwriting Iraq in its three-year-old war against Iran. The Iraqi government of President Saddam Hussein immediately ordered missiles fired at five Iranian cities in retaliation...
...capital of the world, has been compared by one side or the other with all of these and more. The real Grenada is none of the above. The upheaval there was not, as it was in Iran, a xenophobic religious revolution that saw in every American an agent of Satan and a spy. Grenada was not, like Cuba or Nicaragua, a regional power that could project real force against its neighbors (though it would still be valuable to a great power as a staging point; in this respect it resembled, if anything, other useful dots on the map like...
...Iranian connection to the Beirut conspiracy is quite plausible. Khomeini still refers to the U.S. as the "great Satan." His government is also furious at the French for selling five Super Etendard fighter-bombers to Iraq, with which Iran is at war. President Sayed Ali Khamene'i and Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi have vowed "retribution" against the U.S. and France. The Iranian newspaper Ettela'at published a cartoon depicting Uncle Sam and French President Mitterrand being crushed to death by a huge hand bearing the legend "Lebanese Muslims...
...styles: the fabulist confined to his shtetl and the modernist who regards the universe as a stark and enigmatic combat zone. If Joseph Shapiro is disagreeable, he is never less than credible; once again the author displays a talent for mimicry that has previously allowed him to imitate Satan, fools, saints and, on one occasion, a rooster. True, his gift has been squandered on a man with no redeeming features, but for once Singer is not out to charm his readers. He and his penitent seem content to prove the old Yiddish proverb "Going backward is still a form...