"The Baghdad regime is the first oil-producing government to opt for 100-per-cent nationalisation, a process completed with the acquisition of foreign assets in Basrah last December. It was the first to call for the use of oil as a political weapon against Israel and her backers. It gives strong economic and political support to the ‘Rejection Front’ Palestinians who oppose Arafat’s conciliation and are currently trying to outface the Syrians in Beirut. And it has a leader — Saddam Hussain — who has sprung from being an underground revolutionary gunman to perhaps the first visionary Arab statesman since Nasser."
Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman, 2nd April 1976.
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ReplyDeleteWhat will people want next, footnotes and a bibliography?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, how many magazine articles from 1976 are on the Net? But that doesn't mean that they aren't there if you're prepared to do some research the old-fashioned way.
And then there are books...
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