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...“Civic rearmament”, as he described it, will make a fractured society strong again and schools will be the new barracks of this strategy....
...During that time, he launched a failed White House bid in 2008 and was considered for vice-president by Barack Obama....
...Obama, Donald Trump and Joe Biden, in different ways, have all tried to limit further entanglement. Obama’s big challenge was how to respond to the Arab Spring....
...President Obama learned this lesson when he retreated in 2013 from his “red line” with Syria....
...He was tried, charged, put on death row, and then through chance when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he emptied the prisons and he was free....
...By 2011, as then US president Barack Obama was preparing to pull the last American combat troops out of Iraq, the Arab world was enduring another period of turmoil that would reshape the region — and its...
...The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ In a 2016 interview with The Atlantic Magazine, President Barack Obama, who had recently signed a historic nuclear deal with Tehran, urged Saudi Arabia and Iran to likewise...
...In 1990, when George HW Bush built his coalition against Saddam Hussein to liberate Kuwait, he was eager for Arab participation, and Syria got on board....
...Americans are from Mars and Europeans from Venus, he observed, when allies protested at the toppling of Saddam Hussein....
...opens a window on to a period of freewheeling American diplomacy that coincided with efforts by the UAE and other Middle Eastern nations to gain influence in the US after years of testy relations with the Obama...
...Ah yes, it’s all the fault of Barack Hussein Obama, that famous *checks notes* practicing Christian....
...Saddam Hussein had no link to al-Qaeda. Nor did he have weapons of mass destruction....
...April Glaspie, US ambassador to Iraq in 1990, told Saddam Hussein that America had no opinion on “Arab-Arab conflicts” as divisions amassed on Iraq’s border with Kuwait....
...“The facts and Iraq’s behaviour show that Saddam Hussein and his regime are concealing their efforts to produce more weapons of mass destruction,” he added....
...The state of some barracks, sanitation facilities and kitchens is described as “desolate”....
...Both had worked in the Obama administration when the US and Europe had disagreed about how to respond to Russia’s annexation of Crimea....
...Iran was by then in a deadly war with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and Syrian president Hafez al-Assad was the only Arab leader to back the Islamic republic....
...That ended with the first Gulf war of 1991 — after Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Kuwait. But even then American tanks stopped well short of Baghdad and “regime change”....
...In that role he oversaw the US invasion of Panama and the first Gulf war as the US sought to punish Saddam Hussein’s Iraq for its invasion of Kuwait....
...The first black American president, Barack Hussein Obama, was no radical but the simple fact of him inflamed the right and opened a path for the “birther” lie....
...He argues that the new age of American hegemony was ushered in by the Gulf war of 1991 — in which the US assembled a global coalition to drive Saddam Hussein’s Iraq out of Kuwait....
...The Admiral Codrington pub in Chelsea rang with laughter from Sloane Rangers and their boyfriends from the nearby army barracks. Diana herself was practical, larky, unstuffy....
...By the end of the year, Saddam Hussein was dead but bin Laden was still nowhere to be found. Afghanistan was very much yesterday’s war....
...“Bolsonaro knows that he now has a real opponent — a real gladiator in the political arena,” said Hussein Kalout, who served under ex-president Michel Temer....
...It is probably premature to call it historic; the late King Hussein of Jordan held 45 secret meetings with the Israelis over three decades before signing a peace treaty in 1994 that was historic....
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