... Israel Palestine Al Qaeda Saddam Hussein Dick Cheney Donald Rumsfeld United States Ariel Sharon Whatever the verdict of future historiansabout the wisdom of President GeorgeW. Bush s foreign policies, one abiding irony will stand out: the United States became more entangled in the Middle...

.... © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California Arab George Bush democracy Islam Iraq Saddam Hussein Lebanon Arab Human Development Report United States Iran Bringing Democracy to the Arab World JOSHUA MURAVCHIK There are 22 Arab...

...Judith S. Yaphe Saddam may be gone but many Iraqis still think as they were taught to think: the United States is our enemy and helping the us occupation is unpatriotic. These are mindsets that may be hard to change, even if Baathism as a political movement is banned. It could require...

... decides? © 2001 Current History. All rights reserved. 2001 The Regents of the University of California United States Iraq democracy Saddam Hussein Iran Saudi Arabia George Bush Turkey Kurd Arab The Bush administration has increasingly jus-tified the war in Iraq and its continued...

... organization or two specialized in peacekeeping and state-building operations. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California George Bush United States Iraq Saddam Hussein Al Qaeda terrorism nation building Rumsfeld Soviet Union United...

... The Regents of the University of California United States George Bush Saddam Hussein Iraq terrorism Middle East democracy Muslim Al Qaeda Arab The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,threw into serious question a long-standingtenet of US policy toward the Middle East: the assumption...

... with the United States and its influence in a region of continuing strategic importance to Russia. © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University of California Russia Iraq Iran United States Vladimir Putin Kuwait Saddam Hussein George Bush United Nations oil...

... of democracy do not explain the administration's determination to oust Saddam Hussein, what does? The answer [can be found in] the pursuit of oil and the preservation of America's status as the paramount world power.” © 2003 Current History. All rights reserved. 2003 The Regents of the University...

...Judith S. Yaphe Iraq had a violent and unstable political culture before Saddam, and a stability bolstered by repression, fear, and wealth under Saddam. Could history repeat itself in Iraq? Could the country produce another Saddam-like figure by replicating the conditions and circumstances...

... malleable to a solution after Iraq s Saddam Hussein is toppled from power. There- fore, there was no need to tackle that conflict before invading Iraq. In the words of Robert Kagan, one of the men who has helped shape the administration s geopolitical paradigm, Iraq is a historical pivot. Whether a post...

...Stephen Wrage In a setting where schoolchildren line the rooftops of Saddam's palaces and jamming devices interfere with guidance mechanisms, [precision weapons] may prove more seductive than productive. Indeed, they may prove largely unusable. As the president and his advisers draw up their war...