Tyranny's Ally
America's Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein
A foreign policy analysis examining the United States' strategy toward Iraq during the 1990s. The author argues that American policy failed to effectively counter Saddam Hussein's regime, instead inadvertently bolstering his tyranny and destabilizing the region through a misunderstanding of Ba'athist ideology.
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