Summary
Thomas Friedman’s coined term, as Moses presents it, for conduct designed to signal to enemies that none could “outcrazy” it, referring to Syrian president Hafez al-Assad’s ruthless killing of 20,000 Islamist rebels in the town of Hama in 1982 (More than Genocide, line 175).
Details
- Moses’s application: “On this counting, Israel is well on the way to reaching that terrible total.” His gloss: “Excessive reprisals, we should recall, are a staple of colonial warfare and state consolidation.” (line 175)
Related pages
More than Genocide, Thomas Friedman, Hafez al-Assad, Dahiya doctrine