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Today there are two plausible ways to proceed against a deposed tyrant.
Here, too, Putin tries to walk on both sides of the street, calling Koba a tyrant to sooth the wounded feelings the Baltic leaders, yet instantly qualifying his remarks by saying that Stalin was no Hitler.
So who was Babar, bloodthirsty tyrant, humanist poet, or both – and not necessarily at odds with each other?
Domestically, he was a murderous tyrant; but his primary security concern was Iran, with which he waged, with Western support, a pointless war of nearly ten years that cost a million lives and ended in stalemate.
The Libyan tyrant happily allowed his opponents, or anyone who annoyed him, to be tortured or killed.
Cameron’s supporters in Britain cheered and portrayed him as a new Winston Churchill, standing up to the threat of a vicious continental tyrant.
Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, and Iraqis - and the world - can rejoice in being rid of him.
Aristotle’s Politics offers a radically different interpretation of the relationship between economic performance and political stability: “In order to secure his power, a tyrant must keep the population in poverty, so that the preoccupation with daily bread leaves them no leisure to conspire against the tyrant.”
The democratic world should never stand by idly while a tyrant uses military force to massacre civilians.
The Iraq War was not and could not be justified on the basis that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant.
The four-week war in Iraq was a dazzling display of America's hard military power that removed a vicious tyrant.
Yet, in liberating Iraq, the US failed to ask how the tyrant gained power in the first place, and what, therefore, the challenges in replacing him would be.
But, even without invoking the ghosts of Munich, there are occasions when military force is the only way to deal with a tyrant.
Equating war with a solitary tyrant thus imposes strategic limitations for policymakers.
Palme, however, thought it more important to present a united front with Cuba's tyrant than to worry about atrocities committed by Communists in Indochina.
But the extent of that commitment remains unclear, not least because there is no reliable information about the country’s economic situation.Unlike in Vietnam, where public demands were translated into action by a collective leadership, in North Korea a single, unpredictable tyrant makes all essential decisions.
Unlike in Vietnam, where public demands were translated into action by a collective leadership, in North Korea a single, unpredictable tyrant makes all essential decisions.
In these circumstances, there will be inevitable calls for the West – namely the US – to overthrow the tyrant militarily.
When such prescriptions present themselves, policymakers should take a deep breath and ask how the tyrant got there in the first place.
When US-led forces overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003, far too little effort was made to understand how a peasant tyrant like Saddam was able to seize power and hold it for so long.
Trump is not a murderous tyrant.
In extreme circumstances, this can result in dictatorship, with the tyrant free to indulge bizarre fantasies at the expense of millions under their control.
To top it all off, Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, ostensibly Turkey’s closest new ally, emerged as the most oppressive and bloody regional tyrant.
In The Prince, Machiavelli does not so much legitimize the right to lie as alert people to the way in which the tyrant, by bestowing this right upon himself, renders further debate impossible.
In Venezuela, Russia is following its playbook from Syria, where it intervened not to save besieged people, but to prop up the tyrant they were trying to escape, Bashar al-Assad.
In his rendition of The Emperor’s New Clothes (1934), he offers a familiar account of a petty and vain tyrant.
For example, beyond democratic representation, traditional conservatism also champions the rule of law, without which there can be no constraints on the exercise of power, whether by a tyrant or a populist revolutionary.
He acted besides like a capricious tyrant, giving or refusing bread according to the look of the girl who was sent by her parents for provisions; and he especially closed his door spitefully to Maheude, wishing to punish her because he had not been able to get Catherine.
And I can imagine the founding of nautical towns, clusters of underwater households that, like the Nautilus, would return to the surface of the sea to breathe each morning, free towns if ever there were, independent cities!Then again, who knows whether some tyrant . .
Faith, if I meet the Christian Deity, I am lost: He is a tyrant, and, as such, is full of ideas of vengeance; His Bible speaks of nothing but fearful punishments.
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