Courses of action

Usage examples of policies.

This is the driving force behind the regime and all of its policies and so is the principal determinant of nearly every other aspect of Iraqi policy and society.

Of course, some policies require more support than others, and all require different kinds of support from different regional actors.

What all of this means for the moderate Arab states is that trouble in the Arab-Israeli arena taps into the huge pool of Arab anger and resentment, which gets expressed not only against Israel but against the United States and its policies as well.

American foreign policies are inevitably the result of painful debates among competing strategic, diplomatic, economic, and domestic political interests.

In this climate, the Arab regimes feel they need to be very careful about their support for the United States, and particularly for American policies that are unpopular with their people.

If Saddam was going to be around for some time and there were no real penalties for supporting his policies or even violating the sanctions outright, why not take advantage of the bribes and profits he was doling out?

Republicans and Democrats, around the policies of cold war and anti-Cornmunism.

Nor are any of the other alternative policies discussed in this book more palatable or more realistic.

As a result, those who favored regime change had to argue for policies based on covert action or limited uses of military force.

Moreover, the rest of the world also recognizes that the United States has been galvanized into action by the September 11 attacks, and this suggests that the United States may encounter less diplomatic opposition to more ambitious Iraq policies than in the past.

It is important to understand Iraq's history, our own policies toward the Persian Gulf region, and the history of U.

Nevertheless, as part of the development of the RDF concept, Washington took a fresh look at its policies toward the Middle East and the Persian Gulf region and finally articulated the American interests in the region that have guided U.

However, these policies soon began to hit snags over Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.

Last, the government's policies made it the country's largest employer by far and the employer of last resort, producing a large class of civil servants dependent on government revenues for their livelihood.

Because of the regime's oppressive policies during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, the Kurds were never able to rely on food imports like the rest of the country.