Second, China is not Nazi Germany, an irredeemably evil regime bent on destruction and conquest.
But imagine first a rapid war, then proof that Iraq was indeed a monstrous regime bent on acquiring deadly weapons.
Invoking Neville Chamberlain in Munich in 1938, they warn that the world is appeasing an aggressive and malign regime bent on a nuclear arsenal.
Books, posters, statues and photographs were destroyed, first spontaneously by adversaries and then systematically by a military regime bent on erasing their memory.
Is it an evil regime bent on keeping its dictatorial grip on a starving people and building nuclear bombs to deter meddling from the outside?
The book showed how, as the 'safe' bounds of childhood were destroyed by the war and by a regime bent on separating children out along racial lines, children became increasingly important social actors in their own right.
But sceptical Europeans now acknowledge the threat: some regime bent on bother might (mis calculate that attacking New York or Los Angeles, or indeed London or Berlin, could make aggression pay.
The accord, in its current form, leaves Iran with a vast nuclear infrastructure and relies on inspectors to prevent a breakout, Mr Netanyahu said, calling a decade "the blink of an eye" in the life of a regime bent on "conquest, subjugation and terror" across the Middle East.In this section Will Obamacare cut costs?
The argument sometimes masks the real forces at work — a regime bent on exploiting society's divisions, an opposition so far incapable of providing an alternative, and deepening strife that has drawn in not only the government and defectors, but also gangs and criminals.
