Re: Trump Exceding Authority in Syria
I disagree that Saddam was not a Pan-Arabist. He was heavily in support of unifying all Arab nations under one political system. Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, and Sudan were actively working to unify their nations regionally.
No, it is not. He wanted all of the Arab world to fall in line with his own political beliefs and party, nothing else. What you are saying is like claiming that the Soviet Union was for "Global Liberation".
Sure, they were, so long as the political belief the nation wanted to follow was Marxism. Otherwise, they could not care less and actively fought against them.
His attacks on his neighbors, and supporting those who attacks other nations so long as it was convenient for him (Abu Nidal), then casting them aside when it was not of any kind of advantage (Abu Nidal) shows that he gave lip service at best to the idea of "Pan-Arabism".
Hence, his support of the Lebanese Phalanges Party in the Lebanese Civil War. A party that was closest to that of the Ba'Ath Party in Iraq, a nominally Fascist government, that was actually run by the various Christian minorities, and which actively rejected the "Arab" label, instead preferring to identify themselves as "Phonicians".
Which in the decades long Civil War was a major opponent of the "Arab Identity" groups in Lebanon.
Yes, your claims sure sound good, but they keep failing the smell test when looked at the actual groups and causes he supported.
So you can keep trying to claim he was a "Pan-Arab" until you are blue in the face. His constant support of groups and individuals that supported other agendas (as well as an invasion and attempted annexation of an Arab neighbor) continues to show that is wrong.
