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Driving Saddam's hardware is the most lethal software. He is a master of 20th century totalitarianism. In Republic of Fear, reissued last year by Pantheon, Samir al-Khalil argues that Saddam's political forebears include not just Adolf Hitler -- the precedent George Bush likes to stress -- but Joseph Stalin as well. A corollary to the cult of personality is the principle that everyone but the leader is expendable. In addition to ensuring obedience, terror reminds the followers that they are cannon fodder in the struggle ("the mother of battles," as Saddam would have it) against all who oppose Numero...
World War I led to the Bolshevik Revolution, a power vacuum in Central Europe that was eventually filled by Adolf Hitler, and a British-French carve- up of the Middle East that 72 years later still forms the background for bloodshed. World War II boosted the Soviet Union to the status of a superpower dominating Eastern Europe and challenging the other superpower, the U.S., in a cold war that began almost as soon as the bombs stopped falling. The Korean War ended with U.S. forces stationed approximately on the line along which the shooting began. In the almost 38 years...
...attacks innocents in their homes. "That son of a bitch," one old woman calls him. Anger and indignation, not fear, is the dominant emotion here. In classic Mideastern fashion, people grab me by the shirt lapels as they make their points. Many compare Saddam to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Like Eichmann, whom the Israelis captured, tried and executed in the '60s, so too would Saddam be punished for attacking innocent Jews, they...
Pearl Harbor ignited Bush emotionally, though not yet intellectually. He enlisted and went off to the Pacific as a torpedo-bomber pilot. "It was good vs. evil," he says. "The evil was epitomized by Adolf Hitler and Emperor Hirohito. There was never any second-guessing, never any rationalization about what we might have done differently." Bush was "quite aware" of the cold war. He talked about it with his father Prescott Bush, who was then a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. Bush met Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the diplomat who riled the world by suggesting...
...election was to be the stirring climax to 13 months of breathtaking change. As the first all-German ballot since 1932, when Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist Party won a plurality, Sunday's vote was portrayed as the ultimate moment of a historical closure. A little more than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and two months after unification, the polling for a new Bundestag would be a celebration of democracy and the end to years of division...