Word: tyrants
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...learned from it. That may be because the practice of relying on and empowering dodgy elements as allies and proxies in America's wars remains a strategic staple. Saddam Hussein became an enemy of Washington only after he invaded Kuwait in 1990; in the early 1980s the same tyrant had been supported by the Reagan administration in his war against Iran, then Washington's most immediate foe in the Muslim world. More recently, in Afghanistan, instead of sending in tens of thousands of its own troops, the U.S. relied on local warlords to provide the infantry component against the Taliban...
...their parents' killers in the next row at church, or in the barbershop. Though they could be haunted immigrants from many a troubled place, they have a dark broodingness that suggests that life is a ghost story, made up of dead brothers, lost fathers. Even when the latest tyrant, "Baby Doc" Duvalier, flees in 1986, that only clears the way for murderers to be murdered in turn...
Abbot on gender: “That there must be equality in love; I am not a tyrant, neither are you a slave...
...headquarters, is where Van den Bosch, 61, holds forth when she's not scouring flea markets in London or fabric fairs in Paris. She took the top design job at H&M in 1987 and functions more as a soft-spoken den mother--as opposed to an edict-issuing tyrant--to her team of 90 designers (mostly women...
...fallen dictator apparently made one feeble attempt at defiance. As soldiers were handcuffing him after he was extracted from his "spider hole," these sources say, Saddam spit on his captor. As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant--probably the first time in more than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood...