In fact, they say, defiance may enhance Mr. Hussein's image as a leader willing to stand up to Western domination.

This war is about Western domination of the Middle East.

This is the last century of Western domination over the struggling peoples of the rest of the world.

In 1919, like many from countries under Western domination, he tried to interest the Versailles Conference in self-determination for his country.

War did not reduce the vast gap between Middle East rich and poor, and volatile resentment at Western domination.

Science-based technology facilitates global economic integration at a rapid pace, while resistance to Western domination often takes the form of religiously coded rejections of scientific culture.

Middle Eastern lands that came under Western domination could not develop on their own terms.

At the outset of the story he is involved in an armed resistance against Western domination, left to guard a small bunker in solitude.

"If you get their backs up and excite the strain in them that's upset by 100 years of Western domination, then that doesn't help," an American diplomat said.

As soon as countries became "independent," whether of Soviet domination or theological domination or Western domination, they jumped into capitalism with both feet.