Saddam Hussein

How Rational Is Iran? Steven David, American Interest. Saddam Hussein torched Kuwait's oil fields.  Bashar al-Assad has killed 70,000 of his own people.  Why assume that Iran's autocracy will act rationally?

Saddam and the Missed Opportunity Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel. In the mid-1970s, Israel tried to kill Saddam Hussein with a letter bomb.  Imagine the blood and treasure that would have been saved if the attempt had succeeded.

The Middle East’s “Big Men” Elliott Abrams, Commentary. "Some months after the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, I sat at lunch with the aging Hosni Mubarak . . ."