Dictatorship
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After all, what is expected in Iraq is the fall of a highly ideological
dictatorship.
The warning "Beware of the valley of tears!" is thus the one that must be taken most seriously by those responsible for rebuilding an Iraq scarred by the terrors of
dictatorship
and the ravages of war.
Haffner, later a journalist and author, was a law student who witnessed how the Nazi
dictatorship
became lethal, again incrementally, like the persecution of Jews in Italy.
But, after three years of unimaginable carnage, the Kaiser had been reduced to an instrument of a military
dictatorship
run by Paul von Hindenburg and his chief of staff, Erich Ludendorff.
Myanmar’s Ethnic Powder KegPRAGUE – Two years have passed since Myanmar (Burma) held its first general election after more than two decades of military
dictatorship.
Unlike dictatorship, democracy promises citizens a vote, not happiness.
Electoral
dictatorship.
The political ideal that a populist government strives for is essentially an elected
dictatorship.
The US isn’t a dictatorship, and diplomacy isn’t real estate.
Apart from sharpening the “tools of the proletarian dictatorship” by strengthening the Peoples Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police, they have created a labyrinthine “advance warning” system to monitor threats ranging from peasant riots, urban unrest, and bird flu to the influx of Western ideas through the Internet.
Given the economy’s solid performance and the docility of China’s population, there seems little doubt that Hu’s twenty-first-century market
dictatorship
will preserve the Party’s mandate to continue ruling – for now.
In a continent of loud-mouthed leaders, Patricio Aylwin, who led Chile from
dictatorship
to democracy in 1990, was an oddity: a soft-spoken professor whose great love was the study of the more abstruse aspects of administrative law.
Aylwin faced one of the toughest moral choices any leader of a newly re-established democracy can confront: how far to push prosecution of those who had abducted, tortured, and killed thousands of Chileans during General Augusto Pinochet’s
dictatorship.
But, perhaps most important, one of the pillars of the North Korean
dictatorship
may now be cracking – at a time when the country must once again cope with a severe, man-made food shortage.
But contemplate the future consequences of inaction and shudder: Syria, mired in the carnage between the brutality of Bashar al-Assad and various affiliates of Al Qaeda, a breeding ground of extremism infinitely more dangerous than Afghanistan in the 1990’s;Egypt in chaos, with the West, however unfairly, looking as if it is giving succor to those who would turn it into a Sunni version of Iran; and Iran itself, despite its new president, still a theocratic dictatorship, with a nuclear bomb.
Olusegun Obasanjo, who became Nigeria’s first elected president in 1999 after nearly two decades of military dictatorship, left vast swathes of the country trapped in poverty when he handed power to Yar’Adua last year.
The elimination of markets is the most complete and all encompassing form of dictatorship, but one doomed to break down.
Given that the extremely weak Latin American response to the Venezuelan crisis has only perpetuated the suffering, the summit must take bold and decisive steps against Maduro’s corrupt and dangerous
dictatorship.
A country that emerged so recently from one period of
dictatorship
is unlikely to volunteer for another at the hands of a man who sought to falsify the presidential election of 2004.
Read More from "Germany versus the Euro?"NATO’s Libyan LessonsWASHINGTON, DC – NATO’s intervention in Libya one year ago helped to avert a humanitarian catastrophe and created the conditions for Libya’s citizens to end Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s
dictatorship.
(Will Arab soldiers never learn that
dictatorship
increases Islamist fundamentalism and promotes instability?)
Now that the presidential term limits introduced by Deng Xiaoping to insulate the country against another one-man
dictatorship
have been eliminated, the future of the Communist dynasty rests on the shoulders of one supreme leader.
So, to ensure that its brutal
dictatorship
survives, the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea, led by the Kim clan, hit upon the idea of developing nuclear weapons and the systems needed to deliver them.
China’s Choice in North KoreaTOKYO – If the most dangerous moment for any
dictatorship
is when it starts to reform, North Korea looks ready to turn that truism on its head.
Set in the near future, the story unfolds against the background of a US that has slid into financial ruin and single-party dictatorship, and that finds itself embroiled in yet another pointless foreign military adventure – this time in Venezuela.
During his 32-year dictatorship, Congo's former president Joseph Mobutu accumulated a personal fortune estimated at $4 billion, while his government ran up a $12 billion foreign debt.
This would reinforce the need for inter-communal cooperation and minimize the risk of a return to any form of communal domination or
dictatorship.
In the preaching of Islamists seeking recruits, he notes, are “descriptions of a paradise more similar to a bordello than the reward for pious individuals, fantasies of virgins for suicide bombers, morality police chasing down women showing too much skin, the puritanism of dictatorship, veils, and burqas.”
Syria, whose secular, militarized
dictatorship
most closely resembles the fallen regimes of Tunisia and Egypt, may not be next in line, but appears nonetheless to be approaching a tipping point.
No one, however, should mistake Xi’s enhanced powers for a personal
dictatorship.
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