Word: borderers
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...case of Saddam, the name-calling is far from preposterous. He has unleashed a blitzkrieg against a weak country on his border and committed mass murder -- using poison gas, no less -- on Iraq's Kurdish minority. But there is nonetheless something pernicious about the analogy. Regardless of how those making the comparison try to qualify its implications, there is a danger that many of their readers and listeners will, at least subliminally, take the point to its invidious extreme: Saddam equals Hitler, ergo Arabs equal Nazis. As a brutalizing corollary, the forces fighting the Jewish state, from P.L.O. commandos...
...public U.S. strategy is two-pronged. Militarily, Bush intends to stop Iraq at the Saudi border, guaranteeing by the sheer presence of American troops that an attack on Saudi Arabia is an attack on the U.S. The international boycott of Baghdad is in fact an economic offensive designed to squeeze Saddam so tightly that he is forced to withdraw from Kuwait. "Nobody can stand up forever to total economic deprivation," said Bush last week...
Last December Taylor, a former official in the government whom Doe had wanted to prosecute for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in government funds, led an army of some 170 guerrillas across the border from the Ivory Coast and gradually advanced to the outskirts of Monrovia. But the rebels split when Prince Johnson, a Gio, began accusing Taylor of criminality. U.S. officials say that Taylor is just about as bad as Doe, and Johnson is no savior either. "If we had nudged Doe earlier and harder toward an open society and a free market, it might have made a difference...
...ripe, bulging with enormous reserves of oil and cash, boasting an excellent port on the Persian Gulf -- and utterly incapable of defending itself against Iraq's proficient war machine. Saddam Hussein, hungry for money but greedier still for regional dominance, knew before the first of his soldiers crossed the border that it would be a walkover -- and it was. In 12 hours, Kuwait...
Even in the fine points of his strategy, Saddam evoked echoes of the past. He excited his people with impassioned speeches full of grievances toward their neighbor. He exploited a border dispute, scheduled negotiating sessions that were intended all along to be fruitless, and cooked up a request for intervention by supposedly downtrodden locals. The invasion sequence itself was classic '30s: bluff, feint and grab...