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| | Iraq's Culture of Violence |
 | | In Iraq, it was felt, a single-minded authoritarian leader was especially needed, owing to the country's divisions, challenges, and problems. |
 | | Each of them had a somewhat different justification, with King Ghazi seeking oil and territorial expansion in Kuwait, Kaylani promoting Arab nationalism and rebelling against the British, and Qasim attempting to compete with Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt over the uniting of Arab countries. |
 | | Each attack and counterattack may have deepened the regime's crisis, but they also prolonged its life, as it waited to be rescued by the same political and geographic circumstances that had served it in the past, namely new crises and confrontations and wars. |
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