Even in the last century, most parts of the world have been ruled by kleptocratic tyrants.
Most problems that plague organizations that enable tyrants to run amok, never get past number one.
The impact of turning hearts and minds to undermine tyrants would be long-term and enormous.
In some countries, governments may see globalisation as a threat to their power as tyrants.
Several tyrants were overthrown in their neighborhood last year in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia.
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If there is noticeable opposition to tyrants, then the US must support that opposition.
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Mr Annan is as much troubled by atrocities carried out by tyrants at home as abroad.
While the Non-Aggression Pact was trumpeted by both tyrants with great fanfare, they kept its Protocol secret.
This is why so many of the other countries in the area are also run by tyrants.
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Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?
The only way to sustainably remove these tyrants from power is if the people do it themselves.
More important, it is probably the greatest threat to international tyrants that the world has ever seen.
It flows from the conviction that if we are weak, tyrants will choose to be weak as well.
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What does matter is that the purely altruistic Obama foreign policy is empowering genocidal, misogynist, bigoted tyrants worldwide.
The fall of Communism, the USSR as well as several tyrants in the Middle East have curtailed their sales.
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But both democrats and tyrants can and do make good use of democratic processes, like elections, to gain power.
What they fail to consider is that by genuflecting to tyrants, Obama has made the US an international laughingstock.
Temmuz returns to say to all evil tyrants and oppressors of the world: You will never defeat me this time.
Only fools would agree to bargain away, yard-by-yard, that irreplaceable fabric of freedom for false promises of zealots and tyrants.
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Too often since the early 1960s, judges have acted like philosopher-kings or tyrants, depending on your political point of view.
The future seems bleak for sea pirates, terrorists, tyrants and any other brigand or bully in the bad guy business.
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From Stalin to Hitler to Kim to Saddam, tyrants don't exactly have an excellent record of honoring their treaty commitments.
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But some, at least, are incomparably closer to the real thing today than they were when tyrants and autocrats ruled.
They had an early role in founding the Ba'ath Party in Syria and Iraq, turning those countries over to kleptocratic tyrants.
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Without American support, the tyrants of the Middle East would be pushed aside by the Islamists, who posed the only potent alternative.
He reserved for President George W. Bush a brand of insult he never lavished on the worst tyrants of the Middle East.
The reality of defending a country in a world full of tyrants, terrorists and pirates puts a different perspective on the budget.
Yet it seldom makes sense to isolate large parts of the world permanently, no matter how unpleasant the tyrants who govern them.
Nothing is easy here -- even the killing of tyrants is controversial.
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