Mr. Bolton deserves to be our ambassador because he supports the conviction of our president that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Obama supporter Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic writes that "tyrants and génocidaires would sleep less soundly during a McCain presidency".
"Dear trader, dear industrial worker," the notices said, "proclaim loud in the face of the tyrant that one drop of blood from a Syrian father is more dear to you than evanescent money.
In all but name, Florence was now ruled by a Medici prince, whose position resembled that of the tyrants in other Italian cities such as Milan, Ferrara, Mantua, and Urbino.
Just as Batista's regime had falsely declared Castro's death, it had made the mistake of believing its own propaganda about Morgan, becoming trapped in the closed circuit of information that isolates tyrants not only from their countrymen but from reality.
It was October 1995 — not long after the famous cover photograph on Der Spiegel of that senile tyrant but celebrated critic, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, ripping apart Grass's novel "Ein Weites Feld".
As such, it was an instrument by which to constrain the exercise of political power, particularly that of tyrants, whose policies represented only their own interests and not the good of the community.
With the new focus on language, Keefe Ugalde points to the realisation on the part of many authors that "the tyrant's power is derived from and defeated by language".
"In the beginning of the revolution we believed that the fall of the tyrant would just take a day or two, then a week or two, and then a month or two," said Sheikh Hamza Abu Faris, his elegant classical Arabic interrupted by calls of "Allahu Akbar" and salutes to the martyrs that echoed off the ramparts of the Ottoman citadel where the "brother leader" used to harangue the crowds.
