Volume 38, Number 13 · July 18, 1991
The Wake of the Storm
By Murray Kempton
The most detectable principle in American foreign policy since the Second World War has been that it would rather live with a tyrant than take its chances with the chaos that might or might not come when he is gone. And so Saddam Hussein rules on, scarcely inhibited in the exercise of his savage will and we tolerantly wait for one of those army coups which are the only revolutions that suit our taste and calm our lively fear of all uprisings stirring in precincts socially inferior to the palace.
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