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Perhaps this reasoning begins to explain the willingness of many Yemenis, North African Arabs and Palestinians to wink at Saddam Hussein's brutality; it was cloaked in the rhetoric of Pan-Arabist "justice" and was therefore--although immoral and un-Islamic--understandable and probably excusable.
But on other issues, their interests -- and thus their policies -- diverge. For one thing, Bush and Gorbachev are operating in entirely different domestic political environments. The man in the White House has strong backing from his citizens, while his counterpart in the Kremlin has received delegations of Muslims from Transcaucasia...
Many Arabs and, more generally, many Muslims identify with Saddam Hussein precisely because he is losing on what they see as a heroic, even mythic scale. For them, his plight is a symbol of their own victimization by the rich and powerful nations of the world. No matter how and...
Islamic leaders, in Iran and even among our own allies, have been calling for a peace effort, which would have to include a cease-fire. During this period, an unequivocal commitment from Saddam and united pressure from the alliance, including the Soviet Union, would be necessary to assure Iraq's...
Saddam set his sights on developing Iraq into a regional military superpower as far back as 1971. As Vice President, he established in many countries clandestine procurement units that drew upon a secret Swiss bank account stoked by skimming 5% off Iraq's burgeoning oil revenues. Through the '70s Iraq...