Word: tyrants
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Still, Clinton must be wary to accept a compromise too readily, or history may look back on today's leaders as appeasers of a dangerous tyrant. Hussein has violated United Nations resolutions and the cease-fire agreement of the Persian Gulf War. He has built weapons stockpiles and furnished his palaces while millions suffer from malnutrition brought on by economic sanctions. He has brutally crushed rebel movements and ethnic and religious dissidents...
Compromise and discussion are futile. Saddam Hussein is a tyrant, not a democratically elected leader who has been building up a supply of weapons with the intent to use them...
Anyone can see that a beneficent tyrant could better protect us from foreign aggression. Without the constraints of a Congress, the tyrant could act more swiftly and effectively to prevent, or prosecute, foreign wars...
Likewise, a beneficent tyrant could better provide for domestic tranquillity. He could prevent crime much better than our courts, and he could punish it more justly since the generality of the law does not bind him. In addition, a beneficent tyrant probably could better manage our economy than does the current, fractured system of the Federal Reserve, the President and the Congress...
...tyrant, regardless of his qualities, turns citizens into subjects. More to the point, a tyrant rules over subjects as a master rules slaves. To live life as a slave dishonors humans. Without self-government, physical safety and material luxury are nothing but the barn and the hay for human cattle. Some people would certainly accept that life if the barn is warm and the hay fresh, but honorable Americans disdain it. They truly believe in the motto "Live Free...