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The President internalized the idea of making regime change in Iraq a priority.
This is one of several reasons the United States avoided making "regime change" an avowed element of cold war deterrence.
The use of chemical weapons does not change that underlying calculus: There is still no case for putting U.S. boots on the ground or making regime change an immediate American priority.
So when President Obama proclaimed on Aug. 18, 2011, that "the time has come for President Assad to step aside," thus making regime change an official U.S. priority, the window for common ground with Russia at the U.N. closed.
By Stephen Kinzer's count, the United States has toppled foreign governments 14 times in the 110 years between the 1893 coup in Hawaii and the occupation of Iraq, making regime change by force as American as apple pie.
Other proposals range from targeting individuals involved in human-rights abuses to making regime change official policy.Blunt instruments like this could shatter Mr Obama's careful efforts to corral foreign allies and show Iranians that America is worried about their regime's nuclear delinquencies, not hostile to Iran itself.
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Pan Hejun said: "It's not China's policy to make regime change.
The act, which Congress passed in 1998, made "regime change" in Iraq an official priority of the U.S. government; Chalabi had lobbied tirelessly for the legislation.
Last week, the government accused both chains of conspiring to make "regime change" by starving people, and ordered them to stock their shelves or face their businesses being seized.
It was President Bill Clinton who made "regime change" in Baghdad the declaratory policy of the United States, and who came close to war in 1998, settling instead for airstrikes.
Even today, the neoconservative call for democracy in the Middle East seems at least part spin to make regime change more palatable.
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