Arabs and other Muslims generally agreed that Saddam Hussein might be a bloody tyrant, but, paralleling FDR's thinking, "he is our bloody tyrant." In their view, the invasion was a family affair to be settled within the family and those who intervened in the name of some grand theory of international justice were doing so to protect their own selfish interests and to maintain Arab subordination to the west.

Samuel P. Huntington

Tag: war tyranny imperialism islam iraq united-nations saddam-hussein american-foreign-policy gulf-war western-hypocrisy military-intervention

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