Word: tyrants
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...anything, many Iraqi leaders are even more grateful. They know better than most how difficult it was to dislodge the tyrant from Tikrit. Most of the attacks on U.S. forces are coming either from Saddam's loyalists, who will have no role in the new Iraq that most Iraqis want to build, or from fundamentalists from other Arab states who, with Saddam's help in many instances, slipped into Iraq for another jihad...
What kind of person does it take to lead the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the world's largest political organization, ruling over 1.3 billion souls? Does it take a great visionary? A ruthless tyrant? A dogmatic ideologue? Or a tame puppet? Last November the enigmatic Hu Jintao became CCP Chairman and earlier this year, President. He came to power as a blank slate, and in the 100 days that he has held both posts, the nature of his leadership has become an increasingly heated topic of debate. Many see Hu's actions over the past three months as cause...
...democratic reform, was worth the wait. Paya's drive calling for a plebiscite on free speech and multiparty elections has placed the emphasis on a hopeful future. Castro has run Cuba as his feudal estate for 44 years, but his naive supporters are finally seeing him for the tyrant he is. As Padgett wrote, Paya has succeeded in "wresting the Cuba debate away from pro- and anti-Castro extremists." The debate is now about measures that will be pro- or anti-Cuba, the freedom of its people from tyranny and oppression, with the understanding that Cuba and Castro...
Your story on the mini-series Hitler: The Rise of Evil [TELEVISION, May 19] reported that many people were concerned that this biography of Adolf Hitler would risk humanizing the tyrant--as if this were a bad thing! What better way to combat evil than to understand it in its full context? We must comprehend all the facets--human and inhuman--of Hitler's life in order to appreciate fully the horror that his hate brought to the world. In refusing to pay attention to the disturbing ways in which Hitler may have resembled a normal person, the world runs...
...hoped to topple the tyrant, restore basic services and then quickly transfer power to a government led by Iraqi exiles cultivated in Western capitals. Instead, it has quickly become clear that Washington will be forced to shoulder the bulk of the political, economic and, particularly, military burden of a long-term occupation. The political and military uncertainty on the ground has indefinitely postponed the transfer of power to an Iraqi interim government, much to the chagrin of the previously exiled groups that had been working with Washington. And whereas the Pentagon had hoped to begin withdrawing many of the approximately...