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To buttress internal opposition, the allies should restore Radio Free Iraq, end the Kurdish civil war in the north, and indict him as a war criminal.
During the Cold War, liberals shunned military intervention--even humanitarian military intervention--because such adventurism could provoke conflict with the Soviets and tended to buttress thuggish right-wingers.
I risk boring you with my autobiography to buttress my contention that The Deep End of the Ocean is fundamentally bogus.
But the second argument does tend to buttress the first.
Where Gaddis does look at the breach between Tito and Stalin, it is to buttress his case that as democrats, the Americans were far more relaxed about managing alliance politics than Stalin was.