Word: despotism
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...million Iraqis are better equipped to determine their country’s destiny than U.S. bombs.” Would those be the same 23 million who have lived under Saddam’s tyranny for over three decades and have no means to topple the despised despot? The same 23 million who were coerced into giving Saddam a 100 percent approval rating in his latest plebiscite? The innocent Iraqi men, women and children who are being systematically oppressed desperately need liberation; HIPJ is naïve to think that will come about without international assistance...
...Despite President Bush's insistence, there's little reason to believe ousting Saddam will bring Middle East peace any closer. That's because the reason Israelis and Palestinians haven't achieved peace until now has precious little to do with the Iraqi despot, and everything to do with the battle for control over land. Until the U.S. is able to take a forceful lead in pushing for a clearly defined territorial compromise along the lines of Resolution 242 as the required destination for the two sides once they have ended their violent confrontation, Israeli-Palestinian peace will remain elusive. That...
...island gulag to mug with its Communist bully. Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, Leonardo DiCaprio and Steven Spielberg have all made pilgrimages southward to express their groupie-like adoration for Castro. Costner said watching the premiere of his film “Thirteen Days” with the despot was “the experience of a lifetime,” while Spielberg called his November 2002 dinner with Castro “the eight most important hours of my life.” To these Hollywood icons, the Cuban leader is a veritable rock star...
...tyrant would eliminate much of Bush's rationale for the war--the goal of establishing not only peace but freedom and progress in the region. After all the American promises of planting democracy where it has not grown, it would be hard to walk away content with supplanting one despot with another who promises to repress only his subjects and not the rest of the region. --Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Mark Thompson and Adam Zagorin/Washington; Bruce Crumley/Paris; Meenakshi Ganguly/Baghdad; Aparisim Ghosh/Basra; Scott MacLeod/Cairo; and Paul Quinn-Judge/Moscow
...Elsewhere in Asia, the escalating tension has everybody scrambling to figure out how worried they should be. North Korean despot Kim Jong Il is known for using belligerent histrionics to blackmail his neighbors for the aid he needs to stay in power. He's got the missiles and the million-man army to make threatening gestures credible. The world is keenly aware that the country is a cornered, starving wolf, short of fuel, food and just about everything else. But with a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis still nowhere in sight and Pyongyang stating it is fully...