Word: arabize
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Although they have no love for Saddam, no Arab government, with the exception of Kuwait's ruling Al Sabah family, with its bitter memories of Iraq's 1990 invasion of their country, supports the Bush administration's war against Iraq. That includes regimes with long-standing strategic relations with the U.S., like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Sure, these governments are discreetly helping with the U.S. military effort. But they are doing so only grudgingly, under American pressure...
...Throughout the Arab world, you hear predictable warnings about the coming American colonialism. Officials say that the war is all about oil, or about protecting Israel. You see a lot of hand-wringing about the suffering of ordinary Iraqis. But the deepest Arab opposition to the war is motivated by something genuine and understandable: Arabs are afraid that America's war will lead to a catastrophe. "Regardless of what people say," Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al Faisal told me last month, "the issues are never manageable, especially in such a complicated country as Iraq...
...Many Arabs predict that hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops will in effect become another faction in the country's violent politics. Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al Hakim, head of the Supreme council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, has already warned that U.S. liberators may soon become hated occupiers. Arab regimes worry that an occupation will be Osama bin Laden's dream come true: a rallying cry for Islamic extremism not just in Iraq but throughout the Middle East. While Arab governments are wary of a U.S. occupation and its colonialist overtones, they equally fear the consequences if the Bush administration...
...goes according to plan, the sky's the limit. But if it doesn't, America's standing in the region will suffer another decline. Even before the first shot was fired, a new Arab American Institute/Zogby International poll showed that negative Arab views of the U.S. jumped in the past year. In Jordan and Morocco, only 10% and 9 %, respectively, viewed the U.S. favorably, compared to 34% and 38% last year. In Saudi Arabia, favorable views of America dropped from...
...chemical and biological weapons he'd managed to keep out of the inspectors' hands in the early '90s; the failure of sanctions, covert coup attempts and a 1998 bombing campaign to dislodge the regime; the slow breakup of the Gulf War coalition as much of Europe and the Arab world found itself at odds with the U.S. and Britain over long-term sanctions; the emergence in the second Bush administration of a determined and increasingly influential core of activist conservative foreign policy ideologues promoting a doctrine of unabashed American empire, advocating the preemptive projection of power to prevent the emergence...