Dictators in the Dock

Big Brother, Tibet, and the Sichuan Earthquake

The dictators remained, however, Molotov and Stalin among them.

African dictators indeed, dictators everywhere who walk the plush red carpets laid out for them in Beijing love it.

Indeed, the last thing the region s dictators wanted to see was a democratic Iraq.

Referendums are the favorite device of populists and would be dictators.

There is no other way forward. This will go down in history as Furutachi Ichiro's masterpiece!

And, I mean, OK, I'm not actually saying that these excuses are completely valueless.

The fall of Gaddafi and a possible overthrow of Assad is making dictators in the region lose their sleep.

Dictators like Saddam make their living by selling their oil, not by holding it in the ground.

But this, too, assumes that dictators are more stupid than they really are.

Legal restraints on humanitarian intervention are necessary because dictators too often use it to justify criminal aggression. Adolf Hitler minted this strategy when he dismantled Czechoslovakia supposedly in defense of the Sudeten Germans and later when he invaded my homeland, Poland.

People in the Middle East and North Africa have been led by the West, or by Western backed dictators, for long enough.

Death, it seems, is always particularly difficult for autocrats to manage, even when they succeed in dying of natural causes.

Legal restraints on humanitarian intervention are necessary because dictators too often use it to justify criminal aggression.

Karimov, like other dictators, peddled a narrative of stability, while doing much to undermine it.

Recent history is replete with alarming examples of dictators and would be dictators who refuse to recognize when their time has run out.

The world s dictators, of course, know exactly what to make of the international community s failure of will and inability to coordinate effective measures.

During the Cold War, dictators benefitted from American largesse as long as they were anti Communist ( our bastards ).

These are the sorts of unbelievable excuses that people give for aging.

It would show that indicted warlords and dictators can avoid justice by holding the Security Council hostage to threats of more violence.

Brutal dictators go unpunished because their interests are protected by large powers with stakes in their natural resources.

But America and the West did, at key turning points, realize that times had changed so much that these dictators had outlived their usefulness.

Rising soft dictators what the journalist Bobby Ghosh calls authoritarian democrats have used these feelings of unease and alienation to attract votes.

BENGHAZI Middle Eastern autocrats routinely warn their people of rivers of blood, Western occupation, poverty, chaos, and Al Qaeda if their regimes are toppled.

That much was understood widely by entrenched Arab dictators, who saw to it that their intelligence and security corps extinguished any flame before it could spread.

The world may have moved on, chastened by the realization that interveners, even when intervening in the name of human rights, can be as barbaric as tin pot dictators.

All that what was wanted from America, most of the young people thought, was withdrawal of its support for allies like Hosni Mubarak and other Arab dictators.

This evolved stealthily into a form of moral racism which held that white Europeans deserved liberal democracy but that people of different cultures had to wait for it. African dictators might do dreadful things but somehow they did not meet with condemnation from many European intellectuals, for criticism implied cultural arrogance.

African dictators might do dreadful things but somehow they did not meet with condemnation from many European intellectuals, for criticism implied cultural arrogance.

Dictators who demand amnesty as a condition for leaving power are somewhat like airplane highjackers who insist on freedom for themselves and imprisoned comrades as the price for releasing hostages.

The first is global, seeking to reconstruct the image of Somalis as a peaceful, resilient people, thereby challenging stereotypes that peg them as terrorists, pirates, warlords and refugees.

Even if this will not immediately bring Saddam's regime down, such active attempts at undermining his rule will certainly make Saddam nervous, and as Ceausescu and Milosevic have shown, nervous dictators make fatal mistakes.