Word: arabize
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...striped pants. (As a South Korean official once said, "George Bush speaks with an iron tongue.") If you do nothing but read the headlines, it would seem that everyone from Nelson Mandela to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder is implacably opposed to a war with Iraq. Both in the Arab world and in Europe, it is feared that unseating Saddam will inflame Muslim opinion, already incensed by American support for Israel in its struggle with the Palestinians. Next, it's said that the U.S. has no clear sense of how a post-Saddam Iraq might be governed or how its territorial...
...diplomatic environment at the U.N. looks encouraging for Washington, in the Muslim world it does not. Last week Amr Moussa, secretary-general of the Arab League, said an American war would "open the gates of hell" in the Middle East. Why the hyperbole? First, because Arab governments wonder if the U.S. will stay the course if casualties mount or stick around to help govern Iraq after a war. Second, because Iraq--cobbled together from three provinces of the Ottoman Empire after World War I--is a fragile state that could easily break up amid yet more violence. But above...
...points out that the objectives were set, the war fought and won, and to world acclaim America went home, avoiding what could have been an endless and bloody bog. "Finishing the job" would have meant a huge and perhaps unsuccessful search for Saddam, the breakup of the coalition of Arab states and strain among European allies. And the body-bag specter, so big back then, is conveniently forgotten...
...level, Baghdad's acquiescence is a dramatic victory for Washington: President Bush demanded last Thursday that Iraq be forced to comply with its obligations to the international community if it hoped to avoid war; Baghdad-sympathetic countries on the Security Council and in the Arab World immediately backed that demand and made clear to Baghdad that continued defiance would see Iraq's regime obliterated; and within four days of President Bush's speech Saddam had cried uncle. But he may have been smiling...
...agreeing unconditionally to new inspections, Saddam clearly hopes to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its European and Arab allies. And also, perhaps, between those on Capitol Hill who accept regime change as a reason for going to war, and those who would support military action only as a last resort if Iraq continues to reject inspections...