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And if these measures do not satisfy his base, Trump will still have one last option, long used by Roman emperors and other assorted dictators during times of domestic difficulty.
The Biblical confrontation is invoked to describe everything from sporting contests to popular uprisings against dictators.
They appeared prominently – eloquent and outspoken, marching daily, holding caricatures of dictators and chanting calls for democratic change.
Dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Kim Il-sung, as iron men of destiny, must stand alone.
It is equally important to address bank secrecy, which facilitates corruption by providing corrupt dictators with a safe haven for their funds.
He called referendums un-British and a “device of dictators and demagogues.”
Even though referendums are sometimes used in representative democracies, as when British voters elected to stay in the European Economic Community in 1975, dictators are much keener on them.
Many fear precisely such an outcome for the Arab awakening, with popular movements toppling despots, only to install new dictators via elections.
But this, too, assumes that dictators are more stupid than they really are.
We have rallied against – and toppled – dictators and tyrants.
The latest attacks are emerging from the political vacuum left by fallen dictators in the Middle East and North Africa.
Stalin LivesThe legacy of dead dictators from vanquished totalitarian regimes should no longer be ambivalent.
The Syria LessonsPRINCETON – As the United States and Russia try to broker a conference that can bring the various sides in the Syrian conflict to the negotiating table, potential Western participants, at least, should be thinking about the larger implications of the Syrian conflict for dictators and democracies around the world.
African dictators might do dreadful things but somehow they did not meet with condemnation from many European intellectuals, for criticism implied cultural arrogance.
Trump plainly prefers dictators to democrats, and lacks any respect for his allies.
Dictators everywhere silence journalists in the name of “national security” by charging those who would investigate their regimes with treason, subversion, or espionage.
Today’s populist leaders should not yet be compared to murderous dictators of the fairly recent past.
Once it became clear that Assad would not go down without a fight, the Obama administration limited its efforts to secure his departure to public shaming – a tactic with a dubious track record when it comes to dictators.
People on the left would defend brutal dictators (Castro, Mao, Pol Pot, Khomeini, et al.) simply because they opposed “Western imperialism.”
Mueller is also known to be putting the squeeze on Manafort, a lobbyist and political consultant with a history of helping dictators.
But America and the West did, at key turning points, realize that times had changed so much that these dictators had outlived their usefulness.
The script is so well known by now among the world’s would-be dictators that it can take less than a week to lock down a country.
This would be not only fair, but it also would teach an important lesson to those who bankroll dictators – a lesson that is likely to have an immediate positive impact worldwide.
CAIRO – The self-immolation a year ago of Tunisian street vendor Mohammed Bouazizi triggered a wave of popular protests that spread across the Arab world, forcing out dictators in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen.
Indeed, African summits, which in the past saw democrats and dictators from different language, religious and cultural environments sharing the same table, usually produced little serious development policies because they indulged in pie-in-the-sky rhetoric.
Democratization in the Arab world is not only about toppling dictators; it is also about redressing the politico-ethnic map of the region, which has kept too many minority groups dissatisfied.
When it comes to producing terrorists and undocumented immigrants – two critical issues for Europe – Arab military dictators have an inglorious record.
It is what aspiring dictators have always done.
The choice is long overdue, as South Korea is a remarkable success story: in one generation, the South Koreans, formerly pummeled by civil war, under constant threat from their Northern communist brethren, long mired in poverty, and ruled by military dictators for 40 years, have built the world’s 13th largest economy and Asia’s most vibrant democracy.
All of those crimes were committed during "Operation Condor," a Latin America-wide program among the continent’s dictators to physically eliminate their opponents on the left.
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