| 11. | Why should we make it possible for some tinpot dictator, unconcerned about retaliation, to hold an American city hostage?
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| 12. | It's less fine if he's fighting a war against some tinpot dictator who's smarter than he is.
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| 13. | In a region of tinpot dictators, bin Laden is the only quasi-political figure who has no affiliations with any state.
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| 14. | Back home, administration officials warned that they were running out of patience with the brassy defiance of Haiti's tinpot military dictatorship.
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| 15. | Every time the world's only superpower tangles diplomatically with the tinpot Iraqi strongman, the winner is Hussein and not the Americans.
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| 16. | It is what separates us from the world's tinpot dictatorships in which leaders of the vanquished party routinely end up in prison.
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| 17. | He censured Philistines, Puritans, professionals, quacks, incompetents, hypocrites, ignoramuses, members of " the tinpot fraternal orders,"
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| 18. | It is run by tinpots and thieves, men so skilled at larceny they can pick the pockets of men who work in shorts without pockets.
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| 19. | We are talking about a U . N . Security Council determined not to offend a tinpot dictator who may be plotting chemical or biological disasters.
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| 20. | But he almost left office remembered as a tinpot censor until Sept . 11 made him into " Churchill in a Yankees cap ."
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