Arab populations doubted Saddam acted for more than personal power

Evidence

But even among those who respond emotionally to such appeals, there are doubts. Is he really working for the greater Arab or Muslim cause or just for his own personal aggrandizement? Will he really bring about a redistribution of the wealth of the old regimes, or merely transfer it to his own control, and in the meantime deprive great numbers of young men from Jordan and Egypt and elsewhere of the employment opportunities that the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia offered? The past record of Iraq is not encouraging. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1703

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even sympathetic Arabs doubted Saddam’s motives and redistribution promises — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1703; Arab publics supported Saddam despite reviling him, because he resisted the West — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 687
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Even sympathetic Arabs doubted Saddam’s motives and redistribution promises — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1703; Arab publics supported Saddam despite reviling him, because he resisted the West — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 687

Broader Connections

• Even sympathetic Arabs doubted Saddam’s motives and redistribution promises #corroborates (0.96) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1703
• Arab publics supported Saddam despite reviling him, because he resisted the West #complicates (0.78) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 687